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From: jdravk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Jeanette Dravk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Data Recovery help!
Message-ID: <13180@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 20:48:55 GMT
Organization: Barbie's Dream Dungeon
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This is regarding my sister's system (she has no USENET access).

My sister has a one ad a half year old Mac IIcx with 2 meg of memory, the
standard 1.44 HD drive and a 40MB Quantum hard drive.

A few months ago she noticed that occasionally the system wouldn't copy
disks and would scramble them in the process of attempting to do so.

Now, the situation is much worse.  The only way she can copy files is from
a *locked* disk to the hard drive.  It's impossible to copy anything from
the hard drive to a disk or to intialize disks.  Again, if the disk is
not locked it becomes hopelessly scrambled and unreadable.

Replacing the system (three times) doesn't help.

Some friends have advised her to reformat her hard drive and start over
but if that happens she'll lose approx. 30 MB of data.  So now she wants to 
know if anyone can help -- either by telling her why this is happening and 
what she can do and/or helping her find a way to save the data/somewhere to
dump it before formatting the disk.  (obviously cloning the disk would be 
ideal, but she's a poor college student so that's not an option).

If anyone lives within a couple hours of the Philadelphia area and has
either a spare external drive or a BBS she could borrow for a short while
she would gladly compensate you for the trouble.


You can either send me mail or call her directly at (215) 935-2510 and ask
for Steph.


Thank you!!!

jeanette-





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