[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] Data recovery from crashed hard disk

ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Ed Friedman) (12/01/90)

We have a 30 Mb Seagate RLL hard disk which has a blown track 0 on it.
Does anyone know of any way to recover the data from this drive?

Thanks in advance,
Ed Friedman

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ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) (12/04/90)

>We have a 30 Mb Seagate RLL hard disk which has a blown track 0 on it.
>Does anyone know of any way to recover the data from this drive?
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Boot from a floppy.
 1)  Probably the first thing to do if you can boot from a floppy, is to
     back up. It may be a chore from a floppy drive, but not as bad as 
     restoring your data from what you remember if other methods fail.
 2)  From your original DOS diskette, do a SYS C: in an attempt to resore
     the trashed system files. Then copy COMMAND.COM back onto C: Back up.
 3)  If you can get a copy of Spinrite or Nortons, either one may be able to
     recover the bad sectors or to move the data. Then back up.
That's all I can think of.....		-ted- 
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