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From: fjmora@CS.WM.EDU (Fredric Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard disk problem
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Date: 24 Feb 89 02:08:27 GMT
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Hello,
In message dated  5 Feb 89 03:16:13 GMT, D. Crevier writes:

> I accidentally turned off my computer while Super Boot was revising
> the files, and now my hard drive won't boot.  I'm using the ICD host
> adaptor and a Miniscribe 3650 formatted in RLL format for 64 megs.
> By booting the ICD disk with the hard drive controller program, it
> still will not access the hard drive.  I assume the boot sector some
> how got messed up when Superboot was renaming the files.  Is there
> any way I can repair the boot sector or access my other partitions?  
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Dan Crevier
> (dcrevier@jarthur.claremont.edu)

Well, you probably did not harm your boot sector, because SuperBoot
don't mess with this. But it looks like you damaged your directory or
your FAT. 
If you damaged your FAT, there is a second copy of it on the hard
disk, so get a disk sector editor like Disk Mechanics (PD) and copy
the good FAT over the damaged one.
If the directoy is damaged... There is little you can do by hand.
I don't know how to help you. Try asking around. BUT: the files
that Superboot was renaming/copying while you shut off the power are
probably either in the \auto folder or in the root directory. So it
is probably only these dirs that need recovery.
Did you do a backup? There is a very fast utility called Meg-A-Minute
around (see back issues of Start).
I don't know anything specific about your hard-disk. What driver do
you use? Atari's or Supra's?
Regards,

     Frederic Mora                              GEnie:
     The College of William and Mary            F.MORA
     Dept. of Computer Science                  INTERNET:
     Williamsburg, VA. 23185                    fjmora@cs.wm.edu
     USA                                        

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