Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Volume labels on hard drives
Message-ID: <996@electro.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 17:36:23 GMT
References: <15591@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <15591@watdragon.waterloo.edu> swklassen@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen) writes:
>I then tried to delete it from the desktop.  As I mentioned the 
>file does not show up on the desktop (hence you can't delete it).
>When I try to drag the entire directory which contains the 
>problem to the trash I get an error message something along
>the line of an object of this name already existing.
>
>Can anyone out there help me?  I _really_ don't want to reformat
>and hence reinstall everything on my 60meg hard drive!!!!!
>
>Can I somehow 'fool' this file into thinking it is really a file
>and not a volume label (and hence delete it) or does someone
>have a utility which will let me manually kill only this file
>(or the directory containing it)?
>
>Question for Atari:  How can something like this get there in
>the first place?




well, at least with tos 1.0, gemdos would allow you to create as many
volume labels as you like, using the Fcreate() call with the appropriate
bit set in the type field. but when it came to deleteing these extra labels,
you couldn't, since the Fdelete() call will actually check the attribute
field, and if the volume label bit is set, it will not delete it.

my suggestion: try using a sector editor to get at the directory entry
that became screwed up into a volume label, manually turn off the volume label
bit, and then try to delete the file. you could also, (slightly more drastic)
zero your hard disk partition (not the whole 60meg, just that particular
partition) and re-install just the software on that partition. either one
should work.



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