KOHLER@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (11/20/90)
I recall a recent thread in (I hope) this newsgroup concerning Norton Disk Doctor trashing D: logical partitions if they were non-DOS. At the time I quickly scanned over them, thinking they didn't concern me... A friend of mine installed a harddrive which came with Ontrack's Disk Manager. This software apparently creates it's D: partition in a manner which looks to Norton Disk Doctor as a non-DOS partition. He was analysing his D: partition, pressed ENTER once too many times in haste, and NDD defaulted to "YES - fix the 'bad' partition". All his files have disappeared behind DOS's "General Failure Error on drive D:". None of the things he has tried thus far have been able to retrieve the partition - I believe it is the boot record that NDD found "bad". My question: Did anyone come up with a solution to the problem short of reformatting? Unfortunately he hasn't done a backup anytime this semester...