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- From: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- Subject: Re: Can't access hard drive!!
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 01:11:13 GMT
- Organization: Gnome's Steamware
- Sender: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- In a message on 05-Apr-96 01:41:56, Howard Walton wrote:
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- > HELP! I was checking my HD's bootblock for viruses when I think I
- > installed or did some sort of chenge to the bootblock. Now when I power
- > up my 1200, everything loads just fine, but the drive won't open when I
- > click on it. I get the message "This drawer cannot be opened."
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- > Can anyone shed light on what I did and offer a suggestion on fixing this
- > problem, short of reformatting my drive.
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- I'm no expert on this, but thinking aloud......
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- You clicked on an icon, yes? You normally get that message when the name
- of the icon differs from the name of the directory it represents, or there
- is no dir that it represents. Have you tried doing a "dir" of that dir
- or partition? Or a "list" of it? Have you got a utility such as DirOpus
- or Sid or similar which shows you the files in a dir?
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- Install is for _floppies_. I suspect you've wrecked the boot block. Can
- you see that partition with HDtoolbox or RDprep? Maybe someone more
- knowledgeable than me will come up with something.
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- I wonder what program you were using, to cause the damage. Look at its
- docs to see what it does.
-
- John
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