Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!njin!princeton!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's "SpinRite" product Keywords: Non-destructive low-level format; interleave optimization Message-ID: <769@mccc.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 88 14:33:01 GMT References: <989@acornrc.UUCP> <1015@bucket.UUCP> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Distribution: na Organization: The College On The Other Side of Route 1 Lines: 12 Leonard, A rogue program apparently trashed the beginning of my HD (Micropolis 1335 70MB) because (a) the system won't boot from it and (b) any attempt to access it is met with "Invalid drive specification". The drive was originally formatted and partitioned (32M, 32M, 6M) with SpeedStor. Do you know of a way to recover without losing data? Thanks. Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Technology Division ...!att!jonlab!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800