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From: kuehn@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jeffery A. Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: how do i recover a harddisk zero track?
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Date: 21 Apr 88 02:10:41 GMT
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our problem is this:  a certain poorly behaved word processor (which shall
remain nameless) has scribbled all over the zero track of a 20meg hard disk.
(other areas may or may not be damaged, but let's assume they're okay) so far
we have tried the following with no luck:
	chkdsk
	recover
	norton v 3.10
	pc diagnostics  (which told us the zero track was bad)
also, it should be noted that there is no surface damage, only bad data on 
this track.  we haven't tried 'format' and we don't really want to, since
the guy has his last six months worth of work on the disk.  (yep, it's another
"do-your-weekly-backups horror story")

the question is:  is there any utility (commercial/shareware/freeware/anyware)
that will help us recover the data on this disk???  please no lectures on the
importance of backups, since (a) it's not my machine, (b) i've already given 
the owner the standard backup lecture, (c) i'm just the poor grad student told
to fix the damn thing.

ANY help or comments will be appreciated.  

thanks,

Jeffery A. Kuehn
kuehn@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, Colorado