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From: kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Lars Kellogg-Stedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: System 7 Ate My Hard Disk Partition
Summary: Tales of woe and a pleas for help...
Keywords: system 7 aliens cosmic rays partitions
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Date: 28 May 91 01:32:06 GMT
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This may or may not be a common problem...

After finally completing the arduous task of downloading the System 7 disk
images, I began the equally nasty task of installing it.  Not much went 
wrong during the actual install, although it sort of happened in two parts -
I wasn't able to download the last two disks at first (the 'tidbits' ones, 
that is).

Everything seemed to work fine...it booted, spent the requisite eons 
rebuilding the desktop file, and what not, and I went nonchalantly on
my way.  But, later that same day (Saturday), as I was peacefully reading
a book, a friend shouted down the stairs, "It says that one of the volumes is
damaged - should I initialize it?"

Suddenly, a primal scream shook the local neighborhood, before finally fading
away into some forgotten corner of the area.

My largest disk partition, the one I used largely for storing recently 
downloaded files, would no longer mount.  Disk First Aid, the world's most
ineffective disk utility, says it is "unable to verify the status of the
disk."  Sum II doesn't even recognize its existence, since it can't be
mounted.

The closest I can come to a diagnosis is a possible bad master directory.
Any suggestions?  I'd like something that can rebuild the master
directory block by scanning the disk, although I'll settle for something
that can recover the files from it reliably.

Any suggestions?  Please email replies; you will have my profuse thanks
and gratitude...

Lars
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~ ~ | Lars Kellogg-Stedman                 | "The art of life
O-O | kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu |   is to be thought odd"
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