Re: Boot block problems

[bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters)]

In article <awerner-1906960822470001@bullhead.execpc.com>,
Andrew Werner <awerner@execpc.com> wrote:

> I damaged several sectors in tracks 0 and 1 of one of my 5 1/4 disks,

> I (fixed it by) 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:

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Im

Unfortunately, you have confused DOS 3.3 and ProDOS when you copied
tracks 0 and 1 from your Copy ][+ disk. Except for a few sectors on
track 0 the remaining sectors are possibly part of one or more files
on the disk.

The thing to do now is to:

1. Make a copy of the disk
2. Run ProSel 8 (Mr. Fixit), and ask it to fix sector 2

ProSel 8 will attempt to recreate the main directory etc. According to
the way I read the ProSel manual, "Any files not in sub-directories
will NOT be recovered e.g., all files at the top level are lost." This
is the reason that you should always put your files in subdirectories
below the volume name.

> How can I restore my old  volume layout?

I'm afraid that restoring from your backup might be the only way
unless Mr. Fixit does the trick.

Hope this helps,



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