Re: [Thinkpad] [OT} drive recovery

Or use Partition Magic off a boot floppy to change it back to FAT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Donald MacQueen" <dmacq@erols.com>; "Thinkpad Mailing List"
<thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [OT} drive recovery

> If the problem is that the drive is FAT32 and you restored Win95 A, then
you
> should be able to put it into another machine as a second drive and read
it
> on any OS above 95A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald MacQueen" <dmacq@erols.com>
> To: "Thinkpad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:40 AM
> 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
> >
> > Donald M. MacQueen [|]
> > "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
> nothing."
> > - Edmund Burke
> >
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