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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Disk Repair Advice
Message-ID: <1214@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 14:16:15 GMT
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In article <18824@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> yz2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Steve Coco) writes:

>I messed up both the boot sector and the FAT table sectors on a disk, but
>the data sectors are intact. Is there anyway to recover the files from this
>disk? I have tried Disk Doctor and got nowhere. Help!


Did you clobber *both* copies of the FAT?  If not, you should be able to copy
the duplicate FAT over the old (damaged) FAT.  That will allow you to get at
your files.  The first thing that comes to mind for repairing the boot sector
is to use one of the good PD/shareware disk formatters (e.g., DCFORMAT), and
ask it to create an "MS-DOS" boot block on the diskette.

If both copies of the FAT are clobbered, then you are out of luck as far as
easy solutions go.  The clusters occupied by the files may be scattered
across the disk as opposed to being consecutive.
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