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From: clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay JACKSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dead HD post-mortem....
Keywords: what is best to do?
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Date: 13 Feb 90 20:42:17 GMT
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Reply-To: clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay JACKSON)
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I had an 84Mb disk "die" horribly in a power surge (it was my personal
machine, so getting it replaced was a "last resort").  I used Disk 
Technician Advanced, by Prime Solutions, and after a few weeks or repeatedly
running it overnight (the manual has a bunch of suggestions on how
to recover from such things), it found and locked out all of the bad
spots caused by the surge (I assume that the head contacted the media in
a couple of spots).

Anyway, it worked for me, and it did recover several files that were
previously inaccessible (the whole DISK was inaccessible when I started).

Good Luck!

Clay Jackson