Re: HELP! Hard Drive Problem!

[voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <2kp80s$gvc@reeve.research.aa.wl.com>, schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
|> I NEED HELP! (with my hard drive :-) )
|> 
|> Here's the scoop.
|> 
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> Well, at this point I was at the panic stage. But for some reason I
|> decided to boot the computer directly into ProDOS 8. To my amazement, all
|> the partitions are accessible!!! BUT ONLY FROM PRODOS 8!?!?
|> 
|> What is going on here? Can I resurrect these partitions to be readable
|> under GS/OS? Why P8 but not GS/OS?
|> 

This happened to me (ahem, to my IIGS) once. I fortunately could save
my partitions by running Mr. Fixit which is part of ProSel-8. I had to choose
"main directory repair". 

If I remember correctly block 0 of all my partitions were corrupt. So before
using Mr. Fixit launch a block editor (like Block Warden) and look at these
blocks. You can use your boot partition as reference. I think blocks 0 and 1
of all partitions should be the same. Be careful not to overwrite blocks 2-6
of any partition. These blocks contain the main directory.

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|> Any help would be appreciated. I'm desperate!
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Stefan Voss
(voss@ira.uka.de)