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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with recovering hard disk
Message-ID: <316@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 01:42:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: skatter.316
Posted: Sat May 16 01:42:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 10:41:01 EDT
References: <203@houxj.UUCP>
Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
Lines: 32
Keywords: HD low level formatter
Summary: have you tried...

In article <203@houxj.UUCP>, dck@houxj.UUCP (D.KWONG) writes:
> When I got several soft errors on my hard disk, I ran the
> surface analysis option of a formatter program on the disk.
> But when I got out of the formatter, I found that the entire
> disk have been erased!!!
> I have tried the DOS RECOVER command and Norton Utilities 3.0
> both were unable to recover any of my files.
> Is there any way to recover the hard disk contents?
> 					D. C. Kwong
> 					homxa!houxj!dck

You MAY have some luck with the Mace Utilities (now version 4.0). I have
not used it, but from the readings it claims it can recover data from a
formatted hard disk! There was a short write up about it in a not-so-recent
issue of PC Magazine.

Good LUCK!


... Peter/

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