re: Hard Drive
Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 2:07 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Harris
(992 messages posted)
First, do NOT write to the disk.
Depending on exactly how he did the format it may be possible to do an UN-format.
By that I mean if he did a quick format, recovery maybe easy and not too expensive.
If he did a long format (also called a thorough format) recovery may be impossible
without sending the drive to special forensic services (expensive).
For Win98, try Norton Utilities version 2001 or even 2000. (Versions 2002 and 2003
are aimed at XP, although they may still do unformatting under 98. they do not unforamt
under XP.) Do NOT install on the hard drive. Instead, run from the CDROM. There
is both UNDELETE for single files (skip that) and UNFORMAT (do that). the boxed-set
Norton Utilities come with a good manual describing several disaster scenerios and
how to fix them.
If you do get Norton, after the unformat, think about installing it. It has some
other good features.
Note that there are other unformat utilities. A web-search on UNFORMAT should lead
you to them.
On Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 10:39 am, Steve wrote:
> Is it possible to unformat a hard drive? My youngest was trying some things she
>'learned' in school on her computer and has formatted her hard drive. Any place
>I can find out to un do this goof up?
>Steve
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