Re: Recovering HD partition map...

[bird@nwsrs.nw.att.com (J. L. Walters)]

In article <37cvgs$svu@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:

>This happened to me today; any help would be appreciated.
>  I'd much, much rather prefer to restore data than reformat
>everything (can you say 'no backup of recent projects'?). Any help
>would be much appreciated.

Probably far too late, however, ProSel has a provision to save the boot
blocks of your drive on a regular basis so that they can be restored
when they go South. I realize this info is too late for this time,
however, get ProSel 16 and install it for next time!

I believe the secret here is to never store any "files" in the boot
directory that don't have to be there, put them in a subdirectory and
give ProSel a chance to recover them.

Kind Regards,

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