From: Rob Bell (rbell1_at_csc.com)
Date: Mon Aug 03 1998 - 15:42:29 EDT
You might try Partition Magic. I don't have much experience with it,
but I know it is quite powerful in terms of partition manipulation. It
may have some utilities that allow you to salvage things.
HTH,
Rob
LightSide wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> Once again, I have lost my data on the harddrive after getting both OS/2 and Win95 installed and configured.
> It works great for about a day or two then it just loses the whole thing. Just sits there with that sickening blank
> screen and the cursor up in the top corner.
> At one time I had just DOS and OS/2 on the laptop and it did the same thing. Except in that case, it just lost
> the entire entry table on the OS/2 partition and chkdsk found lost directories and stuff but nothing that would
> help recover it. I've tried all primaries (OS/2 's fdisk allows that upto 4), one primary and one logical.
> I have on my tower computer simular setups (multiple OS's controlled by Boot Manager) and I have never
> had the system just lose access to an entire partition let alone OS. I've tried putting boot manager at the
> begining and the end of freespace when I start and nothing seems to change. Maybe a week of use before it
> just eats it.
>
> If a harddrive is going bad, would that do that? I'm totally scratching my head on this one. Anyone know of
> utilities (besides the startup ones on the thinkpad) that will test a 365XD's harddrive? Maybe it's giving up
> ship. =(
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Mears
> Certified Key and Button Pusher
> robertm_at_az.com
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