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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP! URGENT!
Message-ID: <679@garth.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 00:55:37 GMT
References: <8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com> <697@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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Posted: Sun May 29 17:55:37 1988

In article <697@cernvax.UUCP> emanuel@cernvax.UUCP () writes:
>Eventually, I came to throwing to the trash can the disk ...
>Now, it began to write something on the disk, then 5 seconds after, the disk
>became unreadable!!!

Sounds like the disk failed while the Mac was updating the directory,
prior to ejecting the disk.  Use only high quality double-sided disks.
>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?
Probably MacTools from Central Point Software, or something like that,
can recover your data, assuming that some or all of the directory is gone.
All computers are that unsafe; never trust them :-)
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