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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Damaged XT 40 directory
Message-ID: <76@esquire.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 14:20:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: esquire.76
Posted: Wed May  6 14:20:06 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 8-May-87 05:30:42 EDT
References: <279@osupyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <279@osupyr.UUCP> pgn@.UUCP (Paul G. Nevai) writes:
>Patient: 	my XP* 40 (with about 30M stuff on it)
>
>Symptoms:   	(1)  Doesn't always boot properly.
>		(2)  Starting applications and copying files sometimes takes
>		     an unexpectedly long period of time.  
>		(3)  DiskAid cannot recognize it, it keeps declaring that 
>		     "this is not an HFS volume". 
>
>Diagnosis:	The directory is damaged. (Am I right ???) 
>
>THE REAL Cure:	???

Run out and buy MacZap.  When it comes, throw out MacZap Tools and MacZap Copy
(with the user-interfaces from hell), but run MacZap Recover HFS.  It's the
ONLY thing that helped my XP20, which had similar problems a while ago.  I got
it from The Saving Zone (800-248-0800) for about $40 and have never regretted
it.  I don't know what it does, I don't know how it does it, but it WORKS!

- Steve

P.S.  Let us know if this helps; I'm sure others will have/have had similar
problems with their HDs.