Re: MicroDrive Re-Do-Do

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Steve ][ wrote:
> I corrupted the partitions on CF on my MicroDrive somehow. So I
> decided to connect the CF to my Windows XP machine, formatted it as
> FAT, and then put it back in the IIGS and booted the MicroDrive floppy
> disk.
>
> The MicroDrive utility used to say the drive had 16 sectors per IRQ or
> something, now it says there are 0. I set the DMA back to ROM3. I have
> a ROM3 IIGS but couldn't tell the difference between the "Enabled"
> setting and "ROM3". 
>
> Anyway, I partitioned the drive and then booted my GS/OS 6.0.1 floppy.
> When the Finder ran through the volumes it found, it found some of my
> old partitions (eg, I had one named "VOLC" and it's there again).
>
> What can I do to make sure this thing is completely "fresh"?

Re-partition it using the MicroDrive utility, then re-format (hi-level)
each partition.  Then restore the files to each partition from your
backups.

If you have a CiderPress CF card backup, then just restore it from
that, and all partitions will be resotred correctly.

Not a good idea to FAT format it.

-michael

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