I have an old computer Escom Intel with Windows 3.11 which refuses to start. Can I get a recovery disk which will re-start this? It has 813MB. The main point of this is that I want to read old 3.1 disks. Rivendell

There's really no such thing as a "recovery disk" for Win3.1 per se. You might try booting with a bootable DOS disk and see if there's anything which can be read from the hard drive. If not, (and if it's a machine that's been sitting for a while) I'd suspect that the CMOS battery has fallen to the level where the machine has lost the hard drive geometry (cylinders/heads/sectors per track). If that's indeed the problem, then replace the battery and re-enter the proper parameters in the BIOS to get the drive working again...

I can provide you with a floppy of the Windows 3.1/DOS 6.22 Recovery Disk as produced by Win 3.1. Let me know where to send it.