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From: jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Folder information (How they are handled)
Message-ID: <1555.286745a3@sleepy.bmd.trw.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 20:31:15 GMT
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My hard drive hiccuped and now I can't open one of the folders.  It responds
with three bombs and requires a shutdown to recover (reset doesn,t help).
My questions are :
	1. How are folders handled on a disk, including format of size, name, 
and locaton data?

	2. How are the files within a folder found (where they are on the 
disk)?

	3. If you don't know, how do you determine the starting address of
a file on the disk?

If you haven't guessed, the one file I need and haven't backed up is within the
bad folder.  I can go in with a sector editor and look at all sectors on this
partition which makes me believe that only a pointer or related bit of file
information has been corrupted and not the file itself.  By the way it's a
Syquest cartridge drive with an ICD plus adapter.

Thanks for any help you might provide

Jim Harres      jharres@doc.bmd.trw.com