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From: ebth@rhi.hi.is (Eggert Bjarni Thorlacius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Just destroyed my hard disk.  HELP!!
Message-ID: <2790@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 17 Feb 91 17:26:05 GMT
Organization: University of Iceland
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Hello all.

Yesterday I decided it was time to optimize my hard disk.  Of course I didn't
have to back up, because DiskExpress has always worked before, and besides, I
backed up last year :-)
Well, the impossible happened!  DiskExpress claimed it couldn't read/write
one block on the disk and when I quit, the Finder didn't see any files
("30Mb used for 1667 files, none of which is present")  I have run SUM and
Norton and now I can't even mount the thing!
It seems that the catalog tree, B-tree and volume bitmap have all gone "bad".
My guess is that DiskExpress moved one(or all) of them to a bad block.
Now for the questions:
1) Can I get my files back?
   (I had just installed FileSaver if that helps)
2) Is my disk safe?  Can I just format it and pretend nothing happened, or
   is the disk itself damaged?

Thanks very much in advance.
Eggert Thorlacius
University of Iceland
ebth@rhi.hi.is

P.S.  A little advice:
When FileSaver says:"Your disk is fragmented. Run a defragmentizer", don't
listen to it!