Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dahlia!swklassen
From: swklassen@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Volume labels on hard drives
Keywords: sector editor
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Date: 5 Aug 89 13:56:11 GMT
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>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.


I have been looking for a sector editor but have not been having much luck.
Does anyone out there know where I can find one?  I do have access to
Norten Utilities for the IBM PC.  Will this work running through Ditto or
is the Atari file format different than the IBM?


Steven W. Klassen
Computer Science Major
University of Waterloo