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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!grape.epix.net!qrvlppp1.epix.net!user From: tmc@wentworth.com (Tim McLain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Help with lost (?) hard drive formatted BSDI Unix .... Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Date: 5 Feb 1995 18:22:24 GMT Organization: Wentworth Worldwide Media Lines: 18 Message-ID: <tmc-050295132244@qrvlppp1.epix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qrvlppp1.epix.net 'lo all. Gotta problem here. Had a 20+ meg ftp site on a PC running BSDI Unix - went to move it to another machine, so we put in a DOS disk to boot the machine, and it decided to start formatted the drive! Sooo, we shut the damn thing down ASAP (as in, less than 3 seconds after it started to format), BUT, even booting the machine with a BSDI disk in the drive wouldn't let us into the contents of the drive. Even tried to boot BSDI from a CDROM, then tried to get into the drive. No dice. Any advice? This data is one-of-a-kind --- how can we get at it? Please send any ideas (much appreciated!) to tmc@wentworth.com ... Thanks! -- Tim