help! unpluged!

[jabr at camelot.necx.com (John Abreau)]

msoule at ix.netcom.com (mark soule ) writes:
>     JABR;
> 
>     Thanks for helping me at the install fest, thinks to you I was 
> didling with xwindows saturday.  Unfortunately my wife stepped on the 
> power strip and pulled the plug out of the wall.  Now I have a disk 
> failure message when I boot.  When I use a DOS system recovery disk I'm 
> able to read and write only the A and B drives, C and D are failures.  
> So, What are the steps to recovering a system crash?
> 
>                                         mark j. Soule

You can't see C and D at all? That sounds very bad. If DOS FDISK cannot read
the hard drives' master boot records, you've got big problems. I'm not sure
what I can suggest at this point; I'm cc'ing this to our volunteers list
in case someone else has some ideas of what you can try.

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