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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7317)	4/27/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

Clarence, I have never played with hidden partitions and multiple boots. I like to keep things simple for my simple mind <seriously>. The only thing I can suggest is: You say you lost all the partitions on one disk. I assume you will be satisfied to just recover your data and then start over with the partioning and installing the OS's. If this is the case, my best guess would be to try LF on the disk the way it is -- without re-partitioning. If this doesn't work, then try creating a FAT 32 partition to encompass the entire disk and try LF like that. I also would call PQ and ask them what to do, since PM seems to be at fault here. And even if PM didn't cause the problem, they may be willing to help. Another alternative is sending the disk out for professional recovery -- I don't know how essential your data is. One more suggestion: You might want to do a trial run with LF on a good (non-essential) disk to get familiar with the program since it will be a less-than-usual situation you will be dealing with on the bad disk. You may understand better what's going on if you have a previous experience for reference. wily PS: Here's a couple data recovery links: symantec.com recover-data.com drivesavers.com

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7317)	4/27/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

Clarence, A note about the LF license: The copy of the software you get is supposed to work on all the drives that are part of your system at the time you first use LF. I asked PQ about this (called them), and was told that LF writes something to the disk for identification (the disk that you recover files from). (This in contrast to their claim that LF writes nothing to the disk). In the future, LF will recover from any drive that is connected to the system in which the original drive is installed (that you recovered files from). That's what they told me -- I'll believe it when I see it. So, regarding my suggestion that you experiment on a known disk, I would do the experimenting with the demo version to be safe. It will give you enough of a run to get familiar. wily

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7317)	4/27/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sorry Clarence, another note: I just remembered -- LF requires a separate DISK to recover your files TO. Just so you'll be prepared, wily

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7317)	4/27/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

You guys were right about LF not working in an NTFS system. PowerQuest says the next release will. Both my working boot partitions are NTFS but I do have that hidden FAT w98/nt partition on C: Can I unhide and make that partition the active boot partition for C: in order for LF to work? I do not think that is necessary. Doesn't LF work from a floppy boot? I have never used it but that makes the most sense to me. My guess is you boot L&F from a floppy boot...it looks at your harddrives and finds files? Then you tell it which FAT partition to restore the files to. In your case you would restore the files to the newly formatted FAT partition on the ROMO. Unhiding and making active the clone at the end of the NT disk should work..at least I can not think of a reason why it would not. You would have to hide the NT partition as you can not have two active partitions on the same physical disk in a Win9x environment. Why mess with the primary NT install if a floppy boot does not work? Wouldn't it make more sense to copy the clone to one of the ROMOs and then boot the ROMO? Wily's comment about the software protection scheme bothers me. I do not like the idea of writing secret info to the harddrive. Which harddrive is it going to write this secret information to? ALL of them? What if you reformat the drive with the secret information? Or..if it works from a floppy boot..does it write secret information to the floppy? Harddrive signature? Which one? I would consider emailing PQ and indicating to them you have a machine with five harddrives and asking how their software protection SCHEME will work in your machine. Zeuspaul