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From: sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Duplicate Partitions
Keywords: Mac
Message-ID: <10074@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:17:48 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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HI.

Does anyone out there have any experience with having one of their hard disk
partitions suddenly duplicate itself?  Everytime I mount my 320Mb CDC 
external hard disk, I get two seemingly identical copies of one of the 
partitions.  I've tried replacing System/Finder, changing SCSI ID's, and a
bunch of other things.  I'm using Silver Lining to manage the drive, and it
doesn't see the extra copy of one of the partitions; otherwise, I'd simply
delete it there.  Just yesterday, I copied all the files off the partition to
another partition and deleted the original partition.  Now, I don't get the
extra copy, but every time I mount it it says "blah blah Damaged.  Do you
want to initialize?"  Ack!  I hit Cancel and it goes ahead and mounts the 3
remaining partitions and seems to work fine, but sometimes it reminds me that
it can't create a Desktop file on the ghost partition.

Any ideas, short of nuking the whole drive and re-formatting?

Scott
sburke@jarthur.claremont.edu