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From: dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (D.S.W.Tansley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Problems with HD Partition INIT -- trashed partition
Summary: Is there any hope?
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Date: 5 Mar 91 10:37:17 GMT
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Oh dear. I have a user with a 'recovered' partition created using the
HD Partition INIT, included with Symantec's SUM utilities, vers. 1.0.
We copied it off his trashed hard disk with apparent success.

However, when we try to mount the partition file using the accompanying
DA, we get a message 'Mount error!'. Errr...

Unfortunately our backup mechanism seems to have also failed, so this
user would dearly love to retreive at least *some* of his files from
this partition file -- it looks 'ok' from a peek using the file
editor & comparing it with a newly created partition, as best we can 
tell. It's not a contiguous space problem either, as the DA will 
explicitly report such an error.

Any ideas folks? Email is the best route I guess. Thanks for any help,

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