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From: rcnelson@l_eld02.icaen.uiowa.edu (Ryan Christian Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HELP!! disk media error
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Date: 14 Nov 90 22:26:25 GMT
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I'm currently (frantically!) trying to revive a paper for a friend of
mine that she saved onto floppy disk right before her word processor
(MacWrite, I think) said "I/O error.  (restart)".

I'm sort of the resident person around here to talk to for anything beyond
the basic stuff.  I've undeleted files and repaired disks for some other
folks in similar situations, so I told her I'd give it a shot.

However, mactools says I've got a media error, and won't look at the disk.
It suggests I make a sector copy and work on IT.  

BUT... it seems EVERY SECTOR on the disk is flawed.  Copy II 7.2 fails to read
any of the blocks on the disk, so it writes a blank disk as the copy 
(bad block => empty sector) which does me no good.  Bit copying the disk 
results in overwriting the beginning of every sector on the disk, which in
in turn gives me a media error on the copy, as well as the original.

I think I can get something using the track editor in copyII 7.2, but I don't
know what it is.  I only can see hex digits, not ASCII, and it gives me 
intermittant FF's in inverse video.  I'm not familiar with the track editor
in this version of mactools, it's a friend's "emergency kit" disk.

Is my friend hosed, or what?
Please reply immediately....you understand.