Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!exodus
From: exodus@uop.UUCP (Freddy Kreuger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Quandry
Message-ID: <594@uop.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 02:36:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: uop.594
Posted: Fri Oct  9 02:36:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 13:50:16 EDT
References: <8710071318.AA01022@work3.icase>
Organization: Somewhere perpendicular to reality...
Lines: 33

In article <8710071318.AA01022@work3.icase>, csrobe@ICASE.ARPA (Charles S. Roberson) writes:
> 
> Another plea for help.  A while back my hard disk had to be sent off
> for repair (it needs it again <sigh>) 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
...
> 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 ).

Uhhhhh, that is quite impossible!  Looking at the source to Meg-A-Minute
program, it will _not_ let you restore a partition into one of a smaller
size... only a smaller one into a larger one (and then making the excess
space unusable, by the way).  So there is no way that the Meg-A-Minute program
wrote any given partition's sectors into those assigned to the next partition.

And to find out what sizes those old partitions were, it is rather easy to
start the RESTORE process with the backup disks and go through the process
until it shows the partition information for those particular backup disks.
Then cancel and do the same for the next series of disks (next partitions).
Just write down how many sectors in each partition.  1 Meg is 2000 sectors
if I remember correctly.  Then reformat the drive and all should be well!!
If you have the backup disks, this works fine, if not, oh well.
Salvage what you can and start over.  


Greg Onufer   		GEnie: G.ONUFER		University of the Pacific
UUCP:	 ...!ucbvax!\				**POSTMASTER @ UOP**
		     -ucdavis!\
	...!lll-crg!/	       -uop.edu!{exodus, exodusr, postmaster, root}
	     ...!ptsfa!cogent!/
	     ...!cepon Se;SSo