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To: d:oug who wrote (47369)	1/22/2000 10:55:00 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 116759

(off topic) What to do when you can not boot your hard drive. My DOS 5 Windows 3.1 486 33 MHz 220 MegByte Hard Drive 8 years old never had a problem but waiting, has to happen sometime and today not able to boot hard drive C: looked at the BIOS, and all written in ok put in boot'able floppy into A: boot'ed ok tried to go to C:, and "not there" glass 1/2 full as this rather than hard errors so hopefully no head crash or mechanical problem so contained inside my little boot'able floppy was that in A:\DOS I put the UNFORMAT DOS file and in the root of this floppy I long ago placed a copy of the C: partition file thru using DOS's MIRROR file and then used the UNFORMAT file mentioned above with the /partn switch and yes the hard drive was accessed and BINGO, alls ok now. Sure easier and better than re format and re load . I'am sure Windows 95 etc has the same "easy" to do things. Might work most times, and may have worked in some times, this partition save/restore, in those times assumed incorrectly boot hard disk was lost, when it was not. doug