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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Need help for a sick floppy disk
Summary: This sort of thing happens to others, not me...
Keywords: floppy corrupted desktop file recovery AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGH!
Message-ID: <874@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 22:36:23 GMT
Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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The other day, I was working on a HyperCard stack which I was keeping on
a floppy.  When I quit HyperCard, I got a System Error (don't recall the
number) and restarted.  I didn't reinsert the floppy at that time.

Well, last night I went to work on my stack.   When I inserted the
floppy disk, the Finder greeted me with a dialog box stating that the
disk needed "minor repairs" and asking me if I wanted it to repair the
disk.  If I cancelled, I was informed that the disk was unreadable and
the disk was ejected.  If I said to repair the disk, the mac churned for
a while and reported back that the disk was unable to be repaired.

So I tried Disk 1st Aid.  It accomplished nothing.  (Actually, I've
never seen this program accomplish anything -- does it do anything
useful?)

MacTools brings up a window for the disk.  No files appear in the
window.  But MacTools *is* able to tell me that the disk has 360K used
and 440K available (or whatever the actual numbers are).

"Verify Disk" using MacTools gives me several errors, all with an ID of
-72.

If I examine the disk using the "View Edit" command, it appears that the
files are still there.

It seems at some time or another, a message flashed by that the Desktop
file was corrupted or missing or something.

I'm using a Mac SE with System 6.0.2 and 1 Mb RAM.

Now for the question:  Is there any hope for this disk?  At least one of
the files represents a bit of work I was doing.  (I do have another
copy, but it's outdated).  Any and all help would certainly be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Geoff

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