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I just
wanted to follow up with a good report. HDMgold got me up and running
again after two sweeps. There were still errors, but I was able to run
McAfee DiskMinder whick after several sweeps eliminated the other errors.
There was still an adjustment that was made to the FAT file to perfect
it. But the great news, not only is the computer fully recovered but
better than before. For almost a year I had not been able to run Defrag
for the C drive. The defrag ran beautifully, so now the computer is
tuned up and running fantastic. Thanks again for a GREAT PRODUCT and
FAST SUPPORT. I will recommend your product to all my friends.
Wayne |
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My name
is Grant and I am from South Africa. My D drive lost its partition table
last week and I have been trying to get someone to assist me to recover
all my data. Quotations from R1,000.00 (approx. $160.00) to R3,500,00
(approx. $560.00) was thrown at me so I decided to see if I could find
cheaper software that could assist me to recover my data. Hard Drive
Mechanic was the first hit I got out of Google. I too was sceptical
to order over the internet as I have been scammed on two other occasions
ordering software in my own country. After reading all 40 testimonials
and surfing the net for 4 hours, I decided to give Hard Drive Mechanic
a try. To spend $69.95 (approx. R430.00) was still a scary experience
not knowing if it was going to work or not. But guess what, within
35 minutes all my problems were no longer. I was ecstatic to see
my D drive re-born. It was worth investing in Hard Drive Mechanic. I’ll
recommend it to anybody, anytime. Thanks Hard Drive Mechanic.
Kind regards,
Grant J Tyler |
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The contents
of my second HD (D:) on my old WIN98 computer were GONE! I used an old
copy of diskfix from PCTools 7.1 to attempt a repair.To my further shock,
my boot drive C: somehow got damaged. I thought I was going to pay hundreds
of dollars to have a technician restore or recover my data. I saw your
software after Googling for "hard disk repair." I purchased
it via PayPal and in 15 minutes my C: drive was up and running.
Now I'm trying to see if this miracle software will find my lost data
on D: What a great product!!!!!
Chris from Indiana
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Dear Sirs:
A week or so ago, I downloaded Hard Drive Mechanic which was supposed
to include Drive-to-Drive. This added bonus was a compelling reason
why I decided to purchase the program.
After some difficulty, I was able to download the HD program and it
has, true to its promo, restored the MBR on my 40 GB drive. This is
one of 4 infected drives.
... Again, while I haven't had an opportunity to work on the other infected
drives, HD Mechanic worked as advertised and I would be remiss if I
did not enthusiastically recommend it to everyone.
Thanks again,
Loui Chachere |
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I read
all of the testimonials and drove around in my car before I decided
to buy your product this afternoon, June 30. Tonite, my hard drive
is as good as new. You people deserve a gold metal. Many
thanks.
Francis Hall
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Thanks
a lot, your software really saved me.
I had some trouble with an IDE raid-controller (Dawicontrol) and the
Partitiontable was lost.
It took your software about 5 min. to fix it.
Achim Krausgrill -Germany
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Thank you
for producing such a wonderful product. Hard Drive Mechanic Gold
fixed my partition table within minutes. Now my system is up and
running and I have the chance to do what I should have been doing all
along...backing up. Thanks again. I bought and downloaded
the software today, 06/09/04.
Buda
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Hi there, I
was very sceptical about the claims made and thought long and hard about
paying out $49.00 US for the program. However, I did and although
it took about three hours and several repairs I managed to recover about
16 months work - thank you guys for a good honest program that does
what you need when you need it - from a grateful user in the UK....
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I installed
a second hard drive (300 GB F:)in my PC some time ago.The OS Windows
XP home edition is on my C:drive.I successfully formatted the new drive
as NTFS and transferred 30GB of info to it.Due to corruption of some
system files on the C: drive I decided to do a clean install of Windows
XP again back to the C: drive.To my horror the OS now reported that
F:drive was not formatted.It was listed as BASIC RAW with half of the
space unallocated.
Microsoft said loading service pack1 would solve the problem but the
OS still reported the same as before. I successfully ran HDM2000 tonight
and now have all my data back. Many thanks
for a brilliant piece of software.
Declan Williams |
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I downloaded
Hard Drive Mechanic today and didn't see the link for a free copy of
Drive 2 Drive until afterwards. Can you please send it to me (soft copy
is fine). HDM totally recovered my hard drive today! I had edited my
boot.ini and couldn;t boot. I used Windows Recovery Console which replaced
by Master Boot Sector and still couldn't boot. I then tried Norton Utilities
2003 and things went from bad to worse. So, THANK YOU!!! -- John
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All I can
say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! Your product (The Hard Drive
Mechanic) saved valuable and sensitive personal data. I'm sure
I would have paid MUCH more through a data recovery service, and it
would have taken DAYS instead of MINUTES! Gotta
love it when software delivers!
J. Speakmen
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Just an
half an hour ago I purchased your program because my hard drive failed
me. Windows XP requested that I should format the drive. I was devastede.
Last time it happened I lost most of my files. I manage this time to
find your site and buy your program. I was very sceptical due to my
last failure of retrivel. But hey your program came through clean!!!
THANK YOU FOR A SUPERB PROGRAM!!!! If not for it most of my pictures
of freinds, writen documents, and lots more would have been go. Thank
you very much! Keep up the good work.
Fredrik Karlsson, Stallarholmen, Sweden |
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Thanks
a Million!
I have received the software, installed it and I have recovered my Data.
Thanks, I will tell everyone that your program works very well.
Joseph
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Where do
I start to express my gratitude for the makers of Hard Drive Mechanic
Gold. What an extra - ordinary piece of work. I had accidentally formatted
my Hard Drive on my wife’s machine ( this is an automatic death
sentence ). She had been running a WinXP upgrade but I had never reformatted
the drive to NTFS. Imagine my surprise after I followed the procedure
setup in the unformat pdf file and saw the files that I needed. WOW!
What an incredible piece of software ... Thank You! Thank You! Thank
You! .... from
Bob Winkelmann / Michigan
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I want
to say thanks for creating such a nice piece of software
"Drive Mechanic" I worked over 10 hours using every version
of scandisk, trying ghost, trying to manually copy even pieces of my
hard drive to no avail. I then found your software and within an hour
had the old drive booted back up and was able to run scandisk, do my
ghost and it looks as though all my data is here.
Thanks
Randy Jordan |
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Gentlemen:
After three sleepless nights, triggered by a power supply failure which
caused a hard drive failure, I downloaded "Hard Drive Mechanic
Gold". I was
prepared for the worst-rebuilding two years of Quick Books data, as
well as
Turbo Tax, Word files, Excel, etc.
I loaded your program, and in 15 minutes the problem was corrected.
I was
able to boot from the Windows XP CD and reinstall the corrupted files.
Thanks for a great program!
Robert Ziff |
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A couple
of weeks ago, I was attempting to transfer data from an old hard drive
to a new hard drive for our new server. I should mention that our old
server had been failing for some time, and the tape backup had not functioned
in a couple of months--which is why we bought a new server. I goofed
up, and wound up trashing the partition table on the old hard drive!
Since our tape backup had not functioned in a couple of months, I thought
I had basically flushed our company down the toilet. Well, I bought
Hard Drive Mechanic, and in no time I had the old hard drive fixed,
copied the data to the new hard drive, and had the new server up in
running. Thanks.
P.Doland
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I would
like to take a few minutes and let you know how amazed I was at the
success & simplicity of your repair program. With the problem I
had with Win. XP I thought my hard drive was a goner. Thanks to your
program it is working perfectly.
It is worth 10 times what I paid for it. I also want to thank your weekend
support tech for his help and knowledge on 12/21/03.
Thanks again everybody. This is the best Christmas gift I have ever
received.
J. Bortner |
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Hi ,
I recently installed a new hard drive and OS on my computer. I installed
my old drive as the slave intending to then copy files to the new drive,
however I could not find my files I got a box that said drive needs
to be formatted Y or N . I selected no.
Every company I contacted wanted hundreds of dollars and ship the drive
to them. I found your web site and after talking with the helpful folks
in CS I downloaded the demo. I encountered several terms that I was
not familiar with this required even more calls to CS each time I got
courteous and friendly service. After the determination was made that
my drive was repairable I then purchased the full version and BINGO
I got all my data back fully and completely.
Thank you for you professional and friendly service. It was a pleasure
doing business with people who really care.
Best regards
George Allen |
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Hello,
I visited your website to find a recovery tool from an NTFS partition
on a NEW MAXTOR drive that is failing. I purchased Hard Drive Mechanic
and called your support line to ask a few questions. While I'm sure
if HDM will fix my problem I must say is is a very valuable product
and your support is superior. Having a real person answer the phone
and not immediately ask for a credit card number is a very pleasant
surprise. This is what support use to be and should be. HDM is a very
impressive product and one which I am sure will get alot of use for
some time to come.
Thanks for great products and superior support.
Oliver Bailey
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Hi,
I usually don’t give praise easily, however ! Your software is
really
"unbelievable". Although I was skeptical at first, it worked
just as advertised, and even better.
It is easy to use and I recovered a XP 180 GB drive in under a half-hour;
most of the time spent was looking for a mouse driver.
It certainly is refreshing to use something that really works in this
day and age especially when a lot of software doesn’t.
Purchasing through the internet and downloading was also a big plus
for me.
Thanks so much!
A R Maniet
Chesterfield, MO |
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I downloaded
the Gold version of Drive Mechanic and a drive that had resisted every
fix (an tool) I could throw at it is alive and well.
GREAT product, and thanks for saving my bacon (it was my boss's computer).
David Ebert
Huckleberry House, Inc. |
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A client
opened an email attachment...well, you get the picture!
Your software saved me. Thank you so much!
Kathy Gorman
Richmond, VA
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Hope I
didn't ruffle any feathers with the last question I asked. I am truely
a novice and I really didn't know. A knowledgeable friend has enlightened
me.
I was able to access DOS commands again on our C:\> drive through
a Windows ME startup disk, and renamed the Windows folder and reinstalled
Windows ME. Don't think we could have done this without your software.
Many thanks to you. We are now able to recover the files we did not
backup. Scandisk is showing some damaged areas. We can now take this
HD issue up with Gateway as my wife mentioned we are still under an
extended warranty.
Thanks again for the great software.
Ben & Tina
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James,
You was correct the downloaded file must have been corrupt. The new
file worked perfectly. The program was everything advertised and more.
I work with a lot of technical support in my job and yours is second
to none. I will sing your programs praises to everyone who will listen
and direct them where to purchase it on the web.
Thanks Again
Don
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Hi!
I purchased Hard Drive Mechanic Gold from Circuit City, and swear by
it. So much so, that I know I sold several copies for you to my co-workers
and business associates.
Keep up the good work, I found it to be just the thing I needed to save
1,000's of hours of work, and countless downloaded software programs
that I would have lost were it not for HDMGOLD!
Sincerely,
Jim Morrison
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Thank you
so much for your quick support (on a Saturday no less). Your advice
would have been worth waiting till Monday, The Mechanic worked like
a charm!
Thanks,
Richard |
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First off
I would like to say congratulations and thank you to your Tech support,
for walking through the trouble that I was having ( which was my fault)
and not the programs, the gentleman that help me was very friendly which
I can not say the same for Symantec (Norton ghost)
I would like to express how impressed I am with this program The program
worked wonderful, I could not believe how fast it was, I even spent
over two hours looking for something that it might have left out, which
to my surprise every thing was there and in tack. it is refreshing to
find a program that does what it says it does.
It is a shame that you do not advertise more then you do, because if
you did people would drop Ghost and Drive copy just to mention a few
in a heart beat.
Again Thank you
J.W. Paul |
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I can't
begin to thank you for the time and patience you gave to me in getting
my system back up and running again and for basically saving my sleeping
life which has been non existent since my CPU crashed.
How much would it cost me total price to upgrade to the GOLD version
of MECHANIC without the other two programs that are advertised as a
package with it? I thought I remembered you saying $15 more and if that
is true how would I go about doing it.
Just in case I decide to upgrade my O.S. now would be the time to obtain
the upgrade. I probably won't upgrade my O.S. but you said the Gold
version has more bells and whistles and more closely follows the manual.
Thanks again,
Tom Johnson |
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I had tried
to use Norton's Emergency Disks included with Systemworks for Windo95/98
which did not help. I had also tried OnTrack's EasyRecovery Lite, which
is part of Fix It Utilities 2000. This program took an hour to "read" the
dead disk and then only let me retrieve 10 files. The full version is
$180 to let you retrieve unlimited files but still leave your hard drive
dead. I was also thinking of "SpinRite"
from Gibson Research but I found out this program won't work with a
drive not seen in DOS.
I was actually looking for "Lost and Found" at Staples when
I saw your software - and I'm very glad I did. I read the box and it
seemed like just the utility I needed. I've never heard of your company
or your software before.
Thanks for a great product !
Sam Yu |
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I purchased
Hard Drive Mechanic. I am a network engineer, teach in the computer
science division at a college and have my own consulting business. I
have come across many problems that appear to have no explanation for
cause and sometimes no FIX either. I was working on a machine for a
company that had a "hard drive crash". All their counting
information was on there with no backup. Couldn't access the drive no
matter what utilities I tried. thought it was a gonner for sure. I tried
Norton Util, MicroScope, etc., and no luck. I went to our local computer
store and saw they had Hard Drive Mechanic figured I had nothing to
loose and the customer obviously could not be any worst condition. I
purchased it, I booted from the floppy, and amazingly it repaired the
drive. All the info was there and I backed it up on tape for the more
than grateful customer.
Hard Drive Mechanic made me look very good and I am sure I will be getting
many recommendations from him now. I feel more confident that if it
possible at all to recover a drive, I have the tool(s) that will do
it. Thanks again, refreshing to see something that is not just all glitz
on the screen and doesn't work. Glitz and works, what else can a technician
ask for (and reasonable priced to boot).
Tom Betress |
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Considering
the panic most feel when a hard drive goes on the blink and the fact
that few people back up their files with the kind of devotion needed
to salvage everything after a devastating crash, a utility that accomplishes
what ``Hard Drive Mechanic Deluxe'' does, as quickly and easily as it
does, is nothing short of a cyberspace miracle
By RIC LEYVA
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You have
a great product. I bought the Gold version You have a great product.
I bought the Gold Version and fixed my drive in about 10 minutes. I
can't believe more stores don't carry it. CompUSA didn't have it, and
Circuit City (where I bought it) didn't know anything about it.
Thanks
J. Burnside
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Words can
not express how impressed I am with this program. I just I wish I had
HDM Deluxe in the past to bring hard drive back. I plan to keep this
program readily assessable because some day (like every hard drive in
the world) my hard drive will crash. One very important feature that
needs emphasizing is that this program is not limited to one system.
canIt comes on a 3.5-inch floppy and all of the tests I have done were
made on a disk copy of the original master. I have tested HDM Deluxe
on my two home systems and my work computer. It is truly amazing that
so much power can come on just a 3.5-inch floppy. This is a must have
program for anyone that wants that extra security and peace of mind.
Charles N. Kinsey
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This new
mechanic works with ANY hard drive, can recover your drive from 98%
of software-related crashes, is S.M.A.R.T. enabled for enhanced disaster
detection, automatically restores damaged or destroyed boot sectors,
and rebuilds damaged file allocation tables (FAT). It's as much a preventative
tool as it is a restorative one. Even better: it fits
& runs on a single floppy disk! This would be a wise investment
for anybody--don't think for one second that you're immune.
Chris Pirillo
LockerGnome |
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Attention:
President of Company
I hope the spelling of the name is close to being correct. Forgive me
if it is not.
I wanted to give a compliment to one of your employees. Brett, in the
tech support department is a jewel. He talked me through a hard drive
disaster and was so good that it was as though he was sitting at my
keyboard doing the work himself. Your product performed flawlessly and
recovered very valuable data that was there one day and gone the next.
My compliments to you, your company, your products and your employees.
It's very good to see a company geared up to meet the needs of its customers
by offering not only quality products at reasonable prices, but also
quality personnel to answer the inevitable questions that will arise.
Hang onto Brett, he is excellent and deserves a raise or at the very
least, a good bonus!
Sincerely,
Ray Vining
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"Corporations
have technicians on staff to bird-dog such costly disasters and elaborate
backup mechanisms in place to forestall economic ruin, but common folk
don't, putting them at serious risk of losing everything. Riding to
the rescue comes ``Hard Drive Mechanic Deluxe'' , a powerful utility
made for the PC user who doesn't have a computer science degree from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Just wanted
to add my name to your long list of success stories. The Chyrnoble virus
wiped me out last week. Scrambled my FAT and left me a broken man. Through
a Network Associates Inc chat line about the virus, I connected with
someone who suggested your product. In desparation I ran to the store
and snagged a copy.
In less than an hour, I had regained 90% of my files. I estimate the
value of the recovered data to be right around $5000. Your product was
a lifesaver (not the candy). Thanks for doing it right!
Don Stever
San Luis Obispo, CA |
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We wanted
to see Hard Drive Mechanic in action. So, we erased the contents of
our hard drive’s boot sector. That action resulted in a blank
screen and a blinking cursor when we rebooted. Sure enough, by carefully
following the instructions in Hard Drive Mechanic's manual, we were
able to return our system to a perfect working state within a half-hour.
Lori Robinson
Smart Computing
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I recently
aquired Hard Drive Mechanic after my hard drive crashed. And you know
what happened? IT WORKED! As a computer technician, it is refreshing
to know that there are at least a few products available that actually
do what they promise.
- Jason A. Czekalski |
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The Hard
Drive Mechanic is the best repair weapon in my hard drive repair arsenal.
This repair tool deserves extremely high marks among hard drive repair
utilities. I strongly recommend this utility be used on any hard drive
crash recovery.
- Rudy Crosby,
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consultant/technician I know what it means to hear the words "crash" --
especially in regards to hard disks. Just the other day one of my 30gb
drives started to die. I immediately linked it to a 60gb drive and started
backing up. As I finished, feeling confident of my backup, I began to
delete partitions off of the dead drive and prepare to send it back
to the manufacturer. I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE WRONG DRIVE/PARTITION.
Anyhow, to sum it up -- hard drive mechanic is not only excellent, but
it recovered a large majority -- gigabytes to be exact -- of my precious
data which dates back to 1992. Support this fine company. |
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I purchased
your Hard Drive Mechanic with skepticism. The FAT on my disk was reportedly
corrupt and I didn't think anything would be able to fix it. I made
a few of my own attempts, inquired the help desk at my company, looked
around on the net, none of which offered a solution. As a last ditch
effort I purchased HDM and to my surprise the single floppy repaired
the disk in less than 15 minutes. Outstanding. It would've taken me
at least 10 hours to rebuild the disk (os and software packages). Not
to mention many more hours replacing a good deal of personal data. Yes,
I had a backup but it was two weeks old. Thank you for publishing USEFUL
software!
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My heart sank.
"Failure loading operating system"
Three month's work with no backup.
It was not a good weekend.
With the emergency boot disk I had made some time ago, I found, with
fdisk, that I now had four partitions where I once had set up one. I
was clinging to the hope that my data was still there. After fielding
suggestions from some fellow bitheads, I went to the local Office Depot
here in Texarkana, TX, and looked at prices. My main solution to the
problem was to buy a new hard disk and start over, then later see if
I could pick apart the problem with the old one. A friend recommended
I use PartitionMagic, but after reading the box, I knew it would be
a matter of using it along with three black candles and a lot of tech-voodoo.
I took note of the price and put down the box. Then, immediately to
its left, I found Hard Drive Mechanic. 99 percent recovery rate sounded
like pretty high claims; but, it was cheaper than PartitionMagic, and
it fit my dilemma perfectly, so I bought it. It worked. Your product
saved me around two-hundred out-of-pocket dollars.
Thank you. For once, I have found a program that does what it says,
no bull. Its execution was straightforward and nearly flawless. Thank
you. The only problem I encountered was when I created the Undo disk.
The floppies I used were known to be good, but after fifteen minutes
of floppy-thrashing for each of the two attempts, HDM could not save
the undo data. I gave up hope for creating an undo disk and continued
with crossed fingers. Luckily, I didn't need it. However, you may want
to check into this problem. Does HDM save the FAT, the directory tree,
and the partition table in the undo? Would drive size matter? I use
a Fujitsu 2.16Gb IDE drive, if this info will help. Thankfully, I am
no longer kicking myself for shunning backups -- my irreplaceable files
are now safe. HDM was my grace. I hope you further your work and get
greater recognition for your life-saving product. For hard drive problems,
HDM is at the top of my recommendation list. Here's to the future of
The Mechanic..
Cheers- Shawn Thomas,Texarkana, AR-TX,
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!!
The other day I was re-partitioning a 2.5 Gig WD hard drive to take
advantage of the new FAT32 in Win 98. This was my "D"
drive.
Somehow I managed to delete the primary partition on my 4.3 Gig
"C"
drive making the drive inaccessible. I though for sure I lost all of
my years of hard work and customer contact information. Not to mention
all of the custom configuration and tuning I've done to my PC. I decided
NOT to reformat and start over. Instead I went to the local software
store to look at "disk utilities". Norton Utilities, Partition
Magic etc, none of them claimed to replace a deleted partition. Then
I saw Hard Drive Mechanic. Never heard of it, but what did I have to
loose. To make a long story short, one hour later ALL of my programs
and data files are back where they should be.
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