Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!cogsci.berkeley.edu!hullp From: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: (was Re. urgent hd. dsk. problem) MANY THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP Message-ID: <26260@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 29 Sep 88 02:09:42 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 41 From: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) Path: cogsci.berkeley.edu!hullp Newsgroups: comps.sys.ibm.pc Subject: (WAS RE. LOST DATA) THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED SAVE MY DATA Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of California, Berkeley Keywords: Many thanks to all for the many suggestions on how to save my data when I lost access to my hard drive after inserting "keyboard.sys" in my "config.sys" file. None of the regular utilities (even Norton Advanced in Maintenance mode) could access it. Miraculously, everything (except my DOS directory which is no big deal, and easily replaced) rose from the dead as follows: I had a Phoenix hard disk installation program designed for an AT system (I have an XT clone). Having tried everything else, I ran this program and ran the "Install partition" option. Suddenly , on the program's disk map, a bootable DOS sector appeared. I left the program and entered "C:" for the nth. time since I'd lost access to the disk. Lo and behold! "C:\->" (my usual C drive prompt) appeared on the screen and a "dir/w" revealed everything was intact. After removing "keyboard.sys" from my "config.sys" file, the system happily booted up from my hard disk. Miracles DO happen! Many thanks again. Philip. E-MAIL: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu.ARPA hullp@ucbcogsci.BITNET ucbvax!hullp!cogsci.UUCP OR: ucb!vax!cogsci.berkeley.edu!hullp