Hi listers --
A friend is having a strange problem with his PC. It was a stable machine
until he installed a scanner last weekend. For some reason, it wiped out the
extended partitions on his main HD. It's a 2 gb (Western) that was
partitioned as C:, D:, E:, and F:. He also has a 250 mb drive as G:, and a
CD-ROM as H:. Now the big drive is all C:, and D: is the small drive. OS is
Win95. CPU: 486 DX4-120, 48 mb RAM. The new scanner is a Umax Astra 2000P.
One last item: When the problem first appeared, Windows went into MS-DOS
compatibility mode. BOOTLOG.TXT said that ebios.vxd was missing. He
installed that and the MS-DOS mode went away, but the partitions were still
missing. Would something like Norton Disk Doctor be useful?
-- Carroll Grigsby

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