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From: jensend1@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: WANTED ALIVE: MISSING HD PARTITION!
Message-ID: <2309jensend1@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 04:50:53 GMT
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I left my Atari ST running while I was gone for about an hour - it was supposed
to finish moving about 400 files from one partition of the hard drive to
another while I was gone.  I was using the Universal Item Selector for the
operation.  When I came back, everything seemed okay, but when I later tried to
access a different partition, it had disappeared from the list of available
drives in the item selector!  Now when I try to open the drive D: partition
from the desktop, it says the partition does not exist...
        Here's the quirk - I have AT Speed installed, and it reads the D:
partition just fine.  All the files are there, it can read the directory, et
cetera.  Only the ST has any problem.  Even worse, I'm using HotWire as a
shell for the ST, and it can still run programs from the D: partition.  I just
can't do any file manipulation on it.
        I'm about ready to reformat the drive and start over.  Before I do
that, does anyone know what the problem is?  Can it be fixed without
reformatting?  I'm not looking forward to formatting a whole bunch of floppies
to 720K just so I can back up the D: partition with a PC backup program.  Your
ideas would be helpful.

Thanks!

David Jensen
Jensend1@byuvax.byu.edu