Fw: request for help

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz)]

   From: "Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net>
   Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:45:06 -0500

   I'm passing along a request for help, from a friend I worked with on the
   Reich for Governor campaign.

   He's a good guy. Please do what you can.

I presume that all of this is IDE.  The fact that it all started
happening as the CDRW was being installed may be significant --
perhaps the CDRW doesn't like being in DMA mode and the disk is
getting confused as a result.  Or perhaps they're both configured as
master, or both as slave.

Are they both on the same IDE channel, or on different channels?

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: "Michael Weissman" <mjweiss at gis.net>
   To: <hqtechteam at robertreich.org>
   Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:06 AM
   Subject: request for help

   > To make a long story short, I'm dealing with a screwed up hard drive
   > which appears to be physically fine (shows up in device manager) but
   > whose partitions and data have all become "lost" (nothing doing in
   > disk management)
   >
   > After about 12 hours of trying various things my sense is that
   > hacking the master boot record or some similarly low-level voodoo is
   > going to be necessary.
   >
   > If anyone has any expertise with this and wouldn't mind giving me a
   > call, I'd really, really appreciate it.  At issue is the drive with
   > all my Reich stuff, all my Wellstone stuff, a load of email, some
   > other stuff.  Ironically, this all started happening as I was
   > installing a faster CDRW to finally start backing all of that up...

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