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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!PLEASE HELP ME IF YOU CAN
Message-ID: <52@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 17:29:26 GMT
Organization: Lake - The systems people
Lines: 37

From article <12951@brl-adm.ARPA>, by dschultz@belvoir-mail1.arpa:
> HELP!!!!!!
> SOMETIME TODAY SOME  #$%$#$#$$#*&%##!!!!! PERSON FORMATTED A HARD DISK
> ON A ZENITH 248 COMPUTER RUNNING MS-DOS 3.1 !!!!
> 
> There was important data on this disk and needless to say it was not backed
> up recently.   

When you format a hard disk EVERYTHING on it goes (I know as I have been
messing with hard disk drivers for about six months now). Without backup
it is lost forever.

The moral of the story

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