Re: Need help retreiving files

[philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

echamber%lonestar.utsa.edu (Eric G. Chambers) writes:

>I accidently (of course) started formatting an important disk and
>was able to stop the process within 1 second.  From what I can tell
>the first 2 sectors of Track 0 have been erased.  My files
>are still on disk (I used Copy II+ and sector editor to see), but
>I have no way (right now) of getting them back.  Any help would
>be appreciated.

  If it's only the first 2 sectors of track 0 that have been erased, then
you can still read the files from that disk.  So just use the file transfer
utility in Copy ][+ to move the files onto another preformatted disk.
  Alternatively, use Copy ][+ to copy the first 2 sectors of track 0 from a
good disk onto your corrupted disk.  Those 2 sectors contain nothing more
than the bootstrap loader--hence the only damage done is that you can't boot
the disk at the moment.

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