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From: schultzd@kira.uucp (David Schultz)
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Subject: Re: External floppy problems and a Lurking Horror....
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Date: 31 Jul 90 13:37:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: johnsonc@topaz.ucq.edu.au's message of 31 Jul 90 12:56:32 GMT

In article <6252@topaz.ucq.edu.au> johnsonc@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Immortality is not from the long time you live but what you achieve in the time you have....) writes:

   When he boots with the external drive on and with a disk in it,
   numerous things sometimes happen (if it is un-write protected):

     a) Files can be corrupt.
     b) Disks can lose EVERY file.
     c) You can try reading the directory but it gives an error (data on 
	disk may be damaged) and when you say CANCEL you get it.  But this
	only works once in a blue moon.  Other times you get a blank window
	for the directory.

   We thought there might have been a virus on but our virus killers didn't
   find any.  Does anyone out there know about any such thing happening????

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I too had this happen when I first got my (used) ST.  As near as I
could figure, some important chips had come loose.  The computer just
forgot it had a drive in the middle of disk read.  THis did bafd
things to the disk.  I took the case off and reseated all the chips I
could.  The problem cleared up.  It has happened twice since then.
However the by using the "kill" option in the PD Vkiller program
(Version ?) I was able to get the data back.  (Don't ask me why that
worked.  I know it shouldn't.)
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