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From: jbww@ukc.ac.uk (J.B.W.Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Subject: Sooner or later it _will_ happen to you.
Message-ID: <4083@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 90 19:04:12 GMT
References: <900305132338.807867@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY>
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In article <900305132338.807867@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY> Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET writes:
><Over the weekend I managed to completely blow away my hard drive.  It wouldn't
><boot, it wouldn't talk to my ST at all, even when I ran AHDI from floppy.
><
>
>Well, it looks like the drive "felt formatted". This happens sometimes;
>I know several people who have had these problems. It also happened to
>me with the sh205 a few weeks ago. After I had reformatted the drive (of
>course!), someone who has faced this problem several times told me of a
>way to restore the drive, at least the partitions above c:\. He told me
>that usually only the first 8-10 kB were zeroed. 
>
>Michael Ritzert
>mjr@dmzrzu71.bitnet

    Anyone with the time to write a tiny utility to just grab all the
	fat and directory structure, + write it to optionally :
	a) file on tracks near other end of disk
	b) floppy disk
(to be run before switch off/ at boot time)

An option to grab this info from a sequence of floppy disks would be nice.

- sorry for suggesting more work for others, when I don't have the time

cheers
 	beau webber