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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)