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- From: glratt@is.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Mitsubishi PC EMERGENCY!!!!!
- Message-ID: <Bt7r70.BxI@rice.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 1992 04:30:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.104706.6067@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- Organization: CRC OCIS, William Marsh Rice University, Houston, Texas
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- In article <1992Aug14.104706.6067@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >HELP!
- >
- >I'm using a Mitsubishi MS-DOS compatible computer whose hard disk has crashed.
- >
- >I'm using it to control a POWER PLANT, get the magnitude of the problem?
- >
- >It's real important that I recover the software on it as I probably can't
- >replace it.
- >
- >I've got Norton Utils, but when I boot from floppy, I can't access the hard
- >drive (doesn't recognize its presence).
-
- Just for the record: is your boot floppy, perchance, DOS 3.30 or
- less? If so, and your hard drive is >32M, that might explain why
- you can't access it.
-
- >
- >Does anyone know any back doors into the system (like Zenith's
- >control-alt-insert, anything like that?) Any device drivers that I can load
- >from floppy to help it recognize the hard drive?
- >
- >Thanks much in advance.
- >
- >jim kraai
- >kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
- >319-268-0320 or 319-273-5555
-
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