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Boot block problems
I damaged several sectors in tracks 0 and 1 of one of my 5 1/4 disks,
which had a LOT of work on it. Whenever I tried to boot it, the drive
only spun, and I didn't even get the ***** UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS *****
message. I then verified the disk using Copy ][+, and found errors in
sectors 0 and 1.
After finding the aforementioned errors, I knew that I would have to
recopy parts of PRODOS and the boot blocks. I did so, copying tracks 0
and 1 off of the Copy ][+ disk and onto the other disk. Having been
successful in that, I then did a catalog of that disk, which showed:
PRODOS SYS 32 17-JUN-87 (or something)
UTIL.SYSTEM SYS ..........
BITCOPY.SYSTEM SYS ..........
PARM.DATA TXT ..........
PARM.KEY TXT ..........
instead of my normal
*PRODOS SYS
*BASIC.SYSTEM SYS
GAMES DIR
HIDRAW DIR
MISC DIR
*STARTUP BAS
HIDRAW.VARS VAR
And even more unusually, when I ran UTIL.SYSTEM from the ProDOS program
selector, I got into BASIC.SYSTEM. How can I restore my old volume
layout? Any help on this would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Andrew (awerner@execpc.com)