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recovering data from crashed HD

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smartcap

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I need to recover some data for a friend. Since he's pretty computer illiterate...and i couldn't get much info from him... This is what I have gathered from booting up the system:

SPECS: It's a 486 DX4/100 (wow i haven't seen these in a while), running on 16 RAM , a 400 GB HD.

OS: some version of MS DOS (he said...he doesn't know which version)

PROBLEM: the SYSTEM no longer recognizes the HD. I can hear the HD spinning up...the BIOS sees it...but it refuses to boot. When I did a FDISK and view the partition info... FDISK stated that it was now a NON-DOS PARTITION.

SOLUTION / IF ANY: Is there a way to get the system to boot up normally again...or better yet, what software can I use to recover the data?
 
simple. put it in another computer and see if windows sees it. if it does, just gank the info he wants off of it. then burn it all to a cd, and take that antique to the dumpster and get him at least a p2.
 
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