RE: [Thinkpad] [OT} drive recovery

Greetings:

If you haven't written to this partition, I would concentrate on locating a
utility with the keywords: partition table editor. My search produced the
following:

http://students.cs.byu.edu/~codyb/
http://www.rembo.com/rad/docs2/radman/fdisk.p.html

HTH

Andre'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org]On
> Behalf Of Donald MacQueen
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:41 AM
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> Subject: [Thinkpad] [OT} drive recovery
>
>
> Hi group,
>
> i have a hard drive that is unreadable, and i need some advice about
> recovering the data. here is is the problem:
>
> the drive was originally a win95 drive. i upgraded to win98, and then
> used partition magic to diddle the block size. (this is all several
> years ago). then i got a wild hair and decided to restore win95. i
> ignored the warning about different block sizes and did the restore.
> the drive is now unreadable.
>
> i have tried ontrack's personal version of their easy recovery
> software with no luck. ontrack said they will recover the data for
> ~$800. i'd be willing to spend a couple of hundred.
>
> any ideas or war stories? thanks.
>
>
> --
> Donald
>
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> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men
> do nothing."
> - Edmund Burke
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