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From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Boot diskette broken - What the hell happened?
Message-ID: <1598@atari.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 89 18:03:54 GMT
References: <866@pcsbst.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA.
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in article <866@pcsbst.UUCP>, jbe@pcsbst.UUCP (jbe) says:

> 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.)

Virus?  I dunno, perhaps, however because it is is disk you seem to
use all the time it may be just a simple case of media failure.

If the files are simply market as 'deleted' then just about any
disk-doctor type program can be used to 'un-delete' the files (as long as
you didn't write something else to the disk of course).  If the directory
is totally messed, then something more powerfull (i.e. not PD?) may be
needed that will allow you to directly pull the information off the sectors
directly....not a pretty chore....

Dan/Atari Corp.