Re: Repairing corrupted IIgs hardisk?

[grent@comcast.net]

On Dec 17, 12:40 am, Mitchell Spector <mitch...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>     Rather annoyed at the moment. Went to cold boot my IIgs
> tonight after a lock up only to find, mysteriously, the entire hardisk
> wiped itself out! The RamFAST still detects the SCSI hardisk
> but it cannot see any of its partitions (it's just a large unpartitioned
> device now). I only *just* recovered a physical hardisk failure from
> last year.
>
>     I tried using ProSel 16's volume repair utility to try and examine
> the drive, but it just gives up and reports a cryptic error message:
>
> "MLI error #$2F - Error occurred on  block 2 - Program aborted"
>
>     Is there any other software worth trying, perhaps something
> like Universe Master? Thankfully I created backup of all my
> partitions on Zip disks a few months ago, but that is rather a
> pain restoring. Just wondering what options I might try to repair
> the partition map on the drive before reformatting.
>
> ...I wonder if this wasn't a result of my ZipGS constantly crashing
> or the lose/intermittently ADB connector on my keyboard. Was
> planning to do something about those weeks ago but got
> sidetracked. :)
>
> Mitchell Spector

Well Deiiverence might be another one. But before you do anything I
would try cleaning the Ramfast cards edge contacts. Then make sure all
the chips are seated good by reseating them and try reseating the SCSI
cable or another one. Oxidation happens over time with all things.

Take Care