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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP!!
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Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 02:41:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 21 02:41:37 1987
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Keywords: My Mac II disk is down

>  various lines describing a hard disk problem.

	Things to try.

	1. Get the CDEV scsi-status from info-mac and use it to mount the
		drive. If it mounts look at it with disktop and see if any
		files are there.  If so copy the important ones off.
		(I have little faith in this working however)

	2. Buy the MacZap utilities. This comes with a hard disk recovery 
		program. Try it.

	3. Brute Force: The problem is that your directory is probably trashed.
		Not all of it is necessarily trashed, though. If you run through
		it with a low-level utility you may be able to read enough 
		of the directory to discover your data's location on the disk
		and copy those sectors to a floppy, and build them into a new
		file. Alternativly, you can clear out the sections of the 
		directory which are trashed, leaving the good portions. This
		may limit the number of files you lose. 

Good Luck,
	Pierce Wetter
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.  There's
a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work.
		-- Gallagher

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