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From: Armadillo@cup.portal.com (Russ Armadillo Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 1/2 system disappeared
Message-ID: <24905@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Dec 89 06:21:06 GMT
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Brad - bad news. I've heard of this several times, but it has never happened
to me. This situation deteriorates rapidly, so hope you get this post in time.

DO NOT add any files to this disk!! Recover as many files as you can to
floppies or another hard disk. Once this is done, you can play with SAM or
Disk Tools to try to discover what happened, but most likely you will turn up
nothing definitive. After tinkering as a possible learning exercise, run your
hard disk mfgr's tools to see if you have any bad sectors. If not, just
erasing may suffice (indicating a directory problem). To be safe, however, you
might as well do a low-level format, This will reallocate any b{ad spots that
might have popped up since your last format. Good luck, -Russ