Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!4225_5132
From: 4225_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: One fried disk, coming up!
Message-ID: <5719.2625b48d@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 13 Apr 90 15:14:21 GMT
References: <5671.262220af@uwovax.uwo.ca> <12096@ttidca.TTI.COM>
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In article <12096@ttidca.TTI.COM>, woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside) writes:
> In article <5671.262220af@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4225_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple) writes:
>>
>> lots of stuff about destroying a disk with Format 11.
>> 
> 
> If your disk was write protected, the formatter should have been unable
> to modify it. However, your note indicates that it is now unreadable. 
> 
> If you have access to any of the disk copiers, make a backup copy of
> the disk first. Make a couple, in fact.

  I am unable to make copies of the disk, in any way (I have tried almost all
the pd copiers avail., from DC format all the way to Hack'nwhatever).

> 
> If only the boot sector is destroyed, you have hope. If the FAT and
> Directory have been destroyed, you now have a scratch disk, suitable
> for formatting.

  It seems that this is the problem, and I have given up, in the process
deleteing all copies of Format 11 (I found the originals, and the doc's say
that the writer won't be held responsible (I have no problem with this) and
that is about all.  No info on what it does to your disk). 

> The easiest way I know to rebuild the boot sector (pardon my humility)
> is to use the REPAIR function of VKILLER (version 3.00 or higher,
> posted here a few months ago, and available in the May, 1990 issue of
> STart Magazine).

  This also met with no success.

  What I still find incredible is that this program did this to my disk with
the WRITE PROTECTION ON.  How?  (The drive made a real good noise as it sounded
(to me) that the head was traversing the sectors from the inside, out).

> * George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA *
> * Path:       woodside@ttidca                          *
> *   or:       ..!{philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside *

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Andrew Semple                          Andrew.Semple@hydra.uwo.ca
2nd Year Applied Math/Computer Science           ads@hydra.uwo.ca  
The University of Western Ontario           
London, Ontario
Canada  "Perfection is the result of extensive correction" -Emery