Re: Recovering HD partition map...

[jp1@aol.com (JP1)]

In article <37fabo$o21@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, nathan@cco.caltech.edu
(Nathan Mates) writes:

>> I hate unrepeatable problems. I just tried again, and my system
>> is acting just fine. About the only difference between things
>> now and yesterday is that my room's a little warmer (had the AC
>> on full blast most of yesterday). Thanks to everyone who bothered;
>> it seems as if it was the wrong time of the month for the system,
>> the wall was putting out a different flavor of AC than usual, or
>> something untraceable.

It's Martians.  They have the means to corrupt system directories and
partition maps at interplanetary distances.

John P.