From: letoured_at_sover.net
Date: Mon Aug 03 1998 - 20:02:45 EDT
I have recovered data off drives (usually HPFS) with the Gammer Tech
Utilities. --Including drives where the entire director structure was
destroyed.
>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
>OS/2 Warp v4: Because you deserve more than an os designed for games
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