Re: OK, I need some help on this one...

Article: 7643 of alt.hackers
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From: mark_a@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark Atkinson")
Subject: Re: OK, I need some help on this one...
Message-ID: D6xx3v.926@cix.compulink.co.uk
Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 21:02:18 GMT
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bdrake@bengal.oxy.edu (Barry T. Drake) writes:
>
> ObHack:  One of our professors managed to trash the first sector of his
> hard
> disk, so it could neither boot nor access the FAT.  Had he backed up?
> Of course not.  In order to recover his valuable information, I found a
> similar
> computer (in the next office; hooray for standardization) and printed
> out a
> copy of the first sector in hex.  Then, using Norton's DiskEdit, I
> typed the
> information onto the first sector of the trashed hard disk, saved it,
> and presto^H^H^H^H^H^H viola! (tm)  His hard disk was as good as new.

Err, why didn't you just use NU to save the boot sector to a file, then
boot from a floppy, and write it back onto the other machine?  Or do you
just like doing things the hard way? :-)


ObLameHack:
Accelerator cable snaps on a friends Skoda (ick), so we unthread our
shoelaces, tie them together, and tie them to the throttle lever on the
carb.  Then one person steers and changes gear, the other leans out the
window pulling on the laces....

Ok, I said it was lame ;^}


Later,


-=Mark=-


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