Re: HELP! My IIgs ProDOS boot partition is corrupt!

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Rodney Hester writes ...
> 
> OK, so I did a very stupid thing.  I did a power-down in the middle of a
> GS/OS boot.  This is a Bad Thing(TM).
> 
> After powering back up a few minutes later, GS/OS 6.0.1 started to boot
> normally, until it tried to load GUPP, at which point it failed and said I
> had to restart.  I could reproduce this at will.
> 
> I shift-booted, came up normally, and deleted GUPP, thinking it was the file
> I had corrupted.
> 
> After rebooting, the IIgs steadfastly refused to boot from my ProDOS
> partition.  Finally, I booted from the GS/OS System floppy, to discover to
> my horror that it no longer recognizes DEV1 and offered to initialize it.
> Urm, no!
> 
> Is there anything I can do to repair this partition short of initializing it
> and starting over?  (I am, needless to say, not thrilled about that option,
> but will do so if necessary.)
> 
 ....

     You could try copying blocks $00 and $01 from any diskette which boots
ProDOS v2.03 to blocks $00 and $01 on the hard disk. Block Warden is a good
block editor for this kind of work. (Another good block editor is Block Works.
Copy II Plus, v8.3 should work, too.)

     Beyond the above, ProSel 16 includes a utility for fixing errors on a hard
disk.



Rubywand