Re: I want to blow up my IIgs

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

TWS <adoyson@nccn.net> wrote:

>But I wont, because I know someone here will be able to help me out!
>
>I used the program DSK2FILE to try to convert some files into .PO
>format.
>
>I must have had the settings wrong or something, it seems I wrote to my
>disk called /MAIN.
>
>When I get to the finder, a window pops open that says:  "Using the
>installed file system translators, GS/OS does not recognize this disk.
>Do you want to initialize?"
>
>I can then click on the following buttons:
> (EJECT) (INITIALIZE)
>
>
>How do I find out what type of damage was done to the disk/ how to fix
>it?  The disk is supposed to be a Prodos volume, about 32 megabytes.
>The disk is on a Focus hard drive card.
>
>Will copy II+ fix it for me?  I will probably have to find a disk repair
>program, because I don't think I own anything that will do the trick.

Sounds like you overwrote the first 800k of the HD partition with
a DSK image (o-boy!)...Prosel might fix it mostly...

I have to agree with Nathan...you should NOT use these emulator
utils.  They don't take the time to protect your REAL Apple IIGS
stuff from damage.

Instead of .dsk, use .shk disk images (commonly called ".sdk")
to get disk images to XGS.  Here's how...

Go to GS Shrinkit, select New Disk Archive, compress a disk
and save as YOURDISK.SHK...transfer this file to your Wintel
and use Nulib to extract it...you should get a file with the volume
name of your disk on the Wintel.  Run this unshrunk disk image
file through IMGUTIL and the result is a .2MG disk image, ready
to run on XGS.

GS Shrinkit will NEVER overwrite your disk without warning like
this.  Good luck!  (If you have a Zip drive, you can even make
an .shk disk image...commonly called ".sdk"...of your whole
Zip disk and take it over full blown to XGS!)