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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
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Subject: Re: Help! Accidental Erasure of Hard Disk
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Date: 31 Jan 89 18:17:09 GMT
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The only way to really recover a formatted disk is to have been using a tool
PRIOR to the accidental formatting like PCTools' MIRROR/REBUILD or Norton's
or Mace's Unformat.  When you format a disk the FAT and root directory are
wiped, and on a big hard drive FAT reconstruction can be really nasty.  I
believe that most of these tools can also attempt a reconstruction even
without using the tool prior to the format, but with less chance of success...

Andy Silverman
silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu