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From: rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Woes: HELP!
Message-ID: <15480001@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 23:43:58 GMT
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Dylan Yolles

>One of my hard drive partitions is turning into spaghetti. By that I mean
>that when I attempt to write a lot of stuff to it (maybe 2 megs) the new
>files are severely corrupted, the directory looks funny, the computer
>crashes, and so on. I believe that the drive can't write to certain
>sectors (I recently noticed a <write fail> message from the ICD utilities).
>What should I do?

Step 1: Back up as much of your data as you can WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

Step 2: Relax in the pleasant knowledge that your data is safe.

After steps 1 and 2, I would ZERO the partition.  This feature is avail-
able in the ICD utilities.  Zeroing the partition will erase the direc-
tory and may solve your problem.  What caused the problem in the first
place, is anybody's guess at this point.  Maybe it is the 40 folder
limit, but it could be hardware too.

Good Luck!
Ron Abramson

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