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From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem -HELP!
Message-ID: <2323@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 21:28:11 GMT
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Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <8805271324.AA13160@decwrl.dec.com>, by hunt@atse.dec.com (Phil Hunt):
> Well, it finally happened.  My Mac II internal hard disk has a directory
> structure error.  It is a PCPC IHD144 meg disk that had 13meg free on it, so
> it is pretty full.

> I rebooted and told it to rebuild the desktop and after 2-3 minutes,
> blam same thing.  I booted a floppy and ran Dsik First Aid on the
> disk and it found no errors, so I exited to Finder and it said the disk
> needed minor repairs, I said proceed,  2-3 minutes in Blam, '1111 error'.
>  
> During all this time, the hard disk would boot, but say it needed repairs, so
> I couldn't run with it.  Now, it won't boot.

If you do not have a current backup, I would recommend that you make
one now, if you can get a backup program to recognize the disk.  If
not, I would use whatever measures I could (such as disk first aid) to
make a copy of every file that you care about and you do not have a
current copy on a floppy.

I would recommend that you reformat the disk and then restore a
backup.  By reformatting the disk, you can be sure that the directory
structure on the disk is proper.  No other way makes me sure that the
directory structures are not corupt.

Next time, at the first sign of trouble, make a backup.  I mean even
before you tell it to rebuild the desktop, or replacing the SCSI
driver.  You would have probably had to skip that folder during the
backup, but you would then have the rest of the disk.  This is one of
the reasons that it is important to be able to specify folders that
shouldn't be backed up with a backup program.  The general idea is
that you want to make sure that you still have everything, just in
case.

I know that I sound like I am preaching, but... well.. err... I am
preaching.  Backups are the only reasonably sure way to recover bad
disks.  Make sure that you have a current backup.

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          William C. DenBesten |       denbeste@bgsu.edu
      Dept of Computer Science | CSNET denbeste%andy.bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net
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