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From: msm26708@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S Mackovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: HELP!: Bad block trouble on HD
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Date: 29 Jul 90 19:19:20 GMT
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HELP!!!

I've got a small problem that's a big problem.  I was working on my GS last
night, when I went to through some files in the trash, it asked my to insert 
the disk that the files were on.  BUT, the files were on a partition on my 
cartridge hard drive and it WAS in the drive!  I quickly discovered that I had 
some bad blocks on that partition. AND the bad blocks were #2 and #9!!!!
(and some other, less important blocks).  Now, since the block #2 is bad, that
partition is not recognized!  I went into SPY.EDIT (a block editor) and found
that everything else was there but it couldn't read block 2 or 9.

I know that everything else is still on the partition but I can't get to it
because the header is trashed.  Is there a program that will reconstruct the
header in block 2?  Or at least be able to save all the files off that
partition (so I could re-format etc... that partition).

Thanks for ANY help...
-mike

P.S. NO, I don't have any backups of that partition.  I just got the drive
about 2 weeks ago, or so, and I haven't had the time or resources to start
a routine backup schedule.
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Mike Mackovitch                      University of Illinois @ Urbana/Champaign
Engineering Computer Science Co-op                 | msm26708@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
"I don't worry 'bout a thing, 'cause I know        |          -or-
  nothing's gonna be all right."      -Mose Allison|  coach@gagme.chi.il.us
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