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Dos doesn't see my hard drive
Name: WickedCurves Date: August 10, 2003 at 19:02:03 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 3.01 Gig/512
Comment:
Help..... trying to get to hard drive from DOS to recover some files, I have DOS 6.22... Doesn't see Hard drive (I have dual 60G's in an array)....Get "Invalid drive specification" msg.
I really, really NEED this data...(It's for my classes at school)....The HD crashed and the only options I am aware of include re-establishing O/S BUT I will lose all data. I will have to slit my little throat if I lose this stuff.....
Name: Dave02 Date: August 10, 2003 at 19:30:17 Pacific
Reply:
Which HDD crashed and what sort of ARRAY? Are we talking a RAID 1 ARRAY? Or something else. Need just a little more info please. Also. What sort of error message did you get that leads you to believe the HDD is toast. Also if a HDD is not seen in BIOS then it really is toast, or a bad connection. If it sees it and says something is wrong then you may be in luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: ok Date: August 10, 2003 at 19:35:16 Pacific
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dos 6.22 is limited to 2.1 gigabytes. you should be able to access them using a windows 98 or me bootdisk, image available at www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
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Response Number 3
Name: Mike Date: August 11, 2003 at 12:46:28 Pacific
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Do you have dual boot machine? as above, if you have a bootdisk, you'd be able to get the files off from a command prompt.
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