EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!PLEASE HELP ME IF YOU CAN

[Dave Goldblatt]

>From article <52 at lakart.UUCP>, by dg at lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough):
> 
> When you format a hard disk EVERYTHING on it goes (I know as I have been
> messing with hard disk drivers for about six months now). Without backup
> it is lost forever.
> 

Wrong.  The only thing erases in normal versions of DOS are the FATs
and directory info.  Data is not erased unless you actually overwrite the
sectors containing it.

Move all followups to comp.sys.ibm.pc, ok?

-dg-

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