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From: ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au
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Subject: Optical drive recovery
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.092001.1@csc.anu.edu.au>
Date: 17 Feb 91 22:20:01 GMT
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Hi,

I need some desparate help. I have been using a Relax Optical Drive to
do my backups. Last Saturday, it just seemed to have stopped working.
When I moved the optical drive to another machine, there was that famous
message "This disk is unreadable, do you want to initialize it". So I
tried some of the standard recovery tools: 1st Aid HFS and SUM. Neither
of these two seemed to recognize the drive at all.

Have I lost my files?

thanx,

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nick guoth			  ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au
Research School of Chemistry
Australian National University    Canberra, AUSTRALIA
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