lost files on disk

[Mark Levy]

I have gotten myself into a terrible bind.  I have a 386 AT compatible
running SCO XENIX 2.2.3. My drives consist of an 80Meg (50 XENIX,30 DOS),
and a 40 Meg (D: 32 M, E: 8 M, both part'ed for DOS). 
I hoped to take some of the load off of the 
root fs by making a new fs for the online man.  I thought thatthere was
enough free space left in the partition to allow this.  I used the same      
maj dev # as / , and picked an arbitrary minor dev # (101).  I then made
a file sys with 2k i-nodes.  The response of the computer was the drive
head & cyl specs for my second drive.  I rebooted in dos, and found the 
disk having 0 files.  I called SCO softcare support, and Shauna said 
that my tripple digit min dev # probably told the OS to go to the next
available drive.  She could not offer any suggestions to restore the 
files.
  NU and PCTOOLS can not find any deleted files from the DOS side, and
using od -c /dev/hd10 ( the second HD on my system ) I am greeted by
the words "invalid partition table" "error loading operating system"
"missing operating system" on the disk.  
  I just finished backing up my XENIX and DOS incase I trashed my C
drive.  I figured that I was safe.  Boy do I feel DUMB!

   Any help would be very much appreciated.  I don't know if our UUCP
mailer on this system works, since I've never received any mail, so
for EMAIL, your best bet is the BITNET address.   Thank you in advance

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             Mark Levy { mhlevy at sbccvm.BITNET   }
                       { mhlevy at sbee.sunysb.edu }