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From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Need Sector Editor!
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Date: 22 Jun 89 14:24:17 GMT
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In article <9624@boulder.Colorado.EDU> meadb%tramp@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bennett Ross Mead) writes:
>I was editing a really long letter to a friend, when I saved it, proofread it,
>and tried to reload it after rebooting, it Severely truncated the file.  

1) There were routines from like Analog posted here several weeks ago to
   help someone hack disks on the bare metal.  Part BASIC, part assembly,
   they could be used as building blocks to help recover your files.

2) I had my own versions of these which I had written, so I did not save
   them.  Note the use of past tense.

   A) I was using ARC (for the first time) under DOS XE (also for the
      first time).  Something I or ARC did caused the root directory
      (at least) on the DOS XE disk to get trashed.  Has anyone tried
      ARC under DOS XE?  (That is, was it ARC or me that screwed up?)

   B) Given that my sector hacker is lost, would someone email or repost
      the Analog(?) one?  I would like to try to reclaim some of the
      lost files.

I mean, like, don't you just hate it when for the first two years you
keep lots of backups, and then for a full year you never need the backups,
so you stop bothering to take them, then when you try something new and
screw up for the first time in two years is the time you didn't write
protect the disk?  Like, don't you just hate it when that happens?  I
know I do.

I was thinking that a cassette might be a great way to make backups.
How much data does like a C-90 hold?  Does ARC/UNARC do tapes?  Or should
I just go ahead and write a backup program?  If I hadn't gotton a second
disk drive I would have done this ages ago anyway.
-Stan