Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!uhupvm1.BITNET!UACE0 From: UACE0@uhupvm1.BITNET.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Interesting Message-ID: <8703020431.AA05950@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 23:29:41 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8703020431.AA05950 Posted: Sun Mar 1 23:29:41 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 23:07:08 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: UACE0%UHUPVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Received: by UHUPVM1 (Mailer X1.23b) id 7344; Sun, 01 Mar 87 22:10:47 CST Date: Sun, 01 Mar 87 21:59:38 CST From: "University (of Houston) ACE (UACE)" Subject: Interesting To: ST Users Well, an interesting thing happened to my hard disk this weekend, I crashed the D partition while using michtron utilities to recover a file. I don't know if the latest version fixes this, but I was upset non-the-less to find out that recovering a file would crash the partition. As it turns out, only the first sector was damaged, so a simple read rwabs from drive E (which had the same size) to write rwabs on drive D fixed it. However, some of the top level files were screwed up, and some of the files in the directory I was trying to recover from were screwed up. But I was able to get drive D back online and save what I could before zeroing it out. SOOOO... If you have a bad partition, or get a bad partition on your hard disk, try writing a little program which does a read RWABS from boot sector zero from a partition of the same size and writing it to the boot sector of the bad partition. If this doesn't work, try one more sector, and keep trying one more sector, for a few. Chances are you will be able to recover some of the STuff. I will post a program which will do this, soon (like this week). - Mike Vederman