Re: Tools to repair corrupt ProDOS filesystem

[James Gray <jamesg@alaska.net>]

The archiver program with gs/os has known problems and is considered by many to
be unusable.

Prosel has worked many times on my hard drive partitions.  I have heard Prosel is
free now.

The best thing is to copy the whole volume onto one of equal size. This way you
can use the block method. This way it copies everything (including the errors).
You can then experiment on saving the copy and not mess up the original any
worse.

- James - [IMAGE]

Dennis Jenkins wrote:

>         Are there any tools to repair a corrupt ProDOS filesystem.  I have no
> bad blocks, but several files that I can't delete, copy, rename, etc...
> I get errors like "block owner not found", "volume bitmap corrupt",
> etc...
>         I tried to copy the whole volume using the GS/OS finder onto another
> volume.  This fails with the above errors.  However, copying files one
> at a time usually works.  I can back up the entire volume at the file
> level using the archiver from gs/os 6.0.1.  However, I can't restore the
> backup set onto a blank prodos volume of sufficient size.  I get the
> same errors as above.  This makes no sense to me, as I'm expecting the
> archiver to basically doing a tar/gzip.