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From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help! Accidental Erasure of Hard Disk
Message-ID: <338@rna.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 04:30:59 GMT
References: <11654@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <11654@reed.UUCP> yeung@reed.UUCP (Woodrow Yeung) writes:
>Could anyone please tell me how a hard disk partition that was formatted can
>be recovered?  ...

If you only did a "format" (rather than a low-level sector format), you can
recover it using the Paul MACE utilities.  There are probably other manual
ways using Norton Utilities, but MACE does it automatically, so I suggest you
try that.

>
>How does one format a second disk?  Trying to format it as drive e did not
>work.  Please send e-mail to inform me of what to do.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Woody Yeung
>yeung@reed
>tektronix!reed!yeung

Unless your system knows about the second drive, based either on your
CMOS setup (if on an AT or AT clone) or the contoller switches or AUTO-Config
via DEBUG on XTs, you won't be able to talk to a drive D or E.  Go into
SETUP (this is done many ways depending on the machine--check your manual),
add the 2nd drive with the proper parameters (drive type= heads/cylinders),
then attach the 2nd drive and reboot. It should be recognized, although the
system will probably complain about a bad partition or somesuch.  That's
okay.  Then use FINIT (or equivalent) to do a low-level format of the 2nd
drive (should be known as D: unless you have more than 1 logical drive on
your first disk), then an FDISK (or equiv.) to partition it and make it
DOS-happy, and finally a FORMAT D: (don't forget the D:!) to do the high-level
format.  If this is confusing, e-mail me with specifics (hardware models
and sizes, DOS version, etc.) and I'll try to help.

marc

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