Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ICASE.ARPA!csrobe From: csrobe@ICASE.ARPA (Charles S. Roberson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Hard Disk Quandry Message-ID: <8710071318.AA01022@work3.icase> Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 09:18:41 EDT Article-I.D.: work3.8710071318.AA01022 Posted: Wed Oct 7 09:18:41 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 10:49:05 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 35 Another plea for help. A while back my hard disk had to be sent off for repair (it needs it again ) so i made an image backup using David Small's Meg-a-minute Backup. My drive is partitioned into 4 roughly equal partions of 5meg each with the 4th partition just a big scratch area. Well, i didn't have 28 disks (only 21) so i decided that the stuff in the fourth partition (dimension?) could just fade into the twi-light zone and i backed up partitions 1-3. Ok, i get the drive back (they told me it was a new drive and i believed them until the problem reappered and i checked the serial numbers) and I reformatted it. (well, being a hard disk neophyte, i never wrote down the sizes of the original partitions (or if did, i sure don't know where i put them). I tried to do it from memory and then i restored the images of the first three partitions. I must have guessed wrong and partition 3 overwrote part of partition 4 so, now, whenever i try to access partition 4 the system hangs ( i have to press reset ). Does anyone know how i can revive partition 4 to the proper size without destroying any other information on the disk? I would appreciate it very much and hold you dear to my heart for the rest of my life (well, for the rest of day at least!). Thanks a million, -chip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chip Roberson ARPANET: csrobe@icase.arpa 1105 London Company Way BITNET: $csrobe@wmmvs.bitnet Williamsburg, VA 23185 UUCP: ...!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *(*please note change in UUCP address ^^^^^^^^^^^ seismo is gone*)* PS. The hard disk is a SUPRA.