Re: Block 2 hard drive damage

[crownmi@zap.io.org (Myles Fudge)]

In article <4qgei4$9o@pith.uoregon.edu>,
Neil Parker <nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>Has it occurred to anybody that the damage might be in the disk's
>partition table?
>
>That would certainly be consistant with the system's inability to see more
>that one partition, and its subsequent inability to see anything useful on
>that one partition.
>
>If it is a damaged partition table, then reconstructing the damaged part by
>hand might be possible.  I'm unaware of any utilities that can reconstruct
>a damaged partition table automatically.

Thanks, Neil.  That is just what I suspected, but as you mentioned I'm in 
the predicament where no utility for the IIgs exists to tackle this 
problem.  I'm quite willing to reconstruct the table by hand if I could 
even read the damn thing.  In an hour it goes with me to our Apple II SIG 
so we can hack away at it with a Mac and a GS.  If it doesn't work, then 
to hell with it... I'll get the whole thing re-formatted and zeroed... 
after which I'm shipping it to Sequential Systems.
-- 
Myles
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