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From: jbe@pcsbst.UUCP (jbe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Boot diskette broken - What the hell happened?
Message-ID: <866@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 09:37:56 GMT
Reply-To: sws4!jbe@pcsbst.UUCP (John-Brown Evans)
Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany
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Can anyone help me or at least tell me what possibly happened?

I have an 80MB hard disk on my ST and a boot diskette which sets up certain
things. After working for a few hours (gulam, emacs, arc) I tried to
reboot only to discover my boot diskette was empty.
*** I did not delete it!!! ***
Fortunately I have a backup ( a bit old, but works) and looked at the
diskette with fseditor and everything still appears to be there, only
the desktop says it's empty, as does gulam (ls) etc. I tried running
undelete and fsck on it but these didn't work.

Q. Could this be a virus? (I was busy un-arcing PD-binaries from usenet
   at the time)
Q. How can I repair the diskette? As I have a backup it's not too bad
   if I lose the stuff, but it would interest me to know how to do it.
   (I'm sure it's easy for a hacker.)

Thanks
J-B
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Name    : John-Brown Evans      Company : PCS GmbH, Munich W-Germany.
UUCP  : ..uunet!unido!pcsbst!jbe;       jbe@pcsbst.UUCP

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