Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!emanuel From: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: HELP! URGENT! Summary: About to lose the job Message-ID: <697@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 25 May 88 23:09:46 GMT References: <8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com> Reply-To: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP () Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 44 Hi, net.mac'ers, I've a BIIIG problem, but may be nothing for you. Here's what I did: I switched on the MAC (a SE, double drive), then inserted a disk, and started to play around with windows, menus, icons, copies, etc. (I must inform you that I'm a complete beginner in Mac world). Eventually, I came to throwing to the trash can the disk (you know, like one copies a complete disk into another simply by moving it into the other. Now, it began to write something on the disk, then 5 seconds after, the disk became unreadable!!! I've tried to insert it several times, to look in the garbage can (which was empty), all useless. In a simple, stupid joke the disk with 792K worth of valuable data was trash! Can you believe it? Now, as I'm a zero in Mac terms, is there a way in that Mac's general value can be restored? You see, I know how to proceed if that had happened in ANOTHER computer... I.e. Is there a way to recover the WHOLE disk? I'm afraid to use Initialize for obvious reasons... Is the Mac that unsafe? What confuses me more is that it SHOULDN'T have happened! See Manual, page 166 (chapter 4): "The Trash is a receptacle for discarding documents and folders. You can't discard disks this way. Instead, dragging a disk to the Trash ejects the disk and removes its icon from the desktop." Is this a specific "feature" of my SE? I'd apreciate a little help, if you can... Thanks A LOT, Emanuel Machado -- Emanuel T.M. Machado, CERN | "Science is true. | UUCP: _ _ | Don't be misled | emanuel@cernvax.UUCP /_ ____ __ __ _