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- From: isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
- Subject: Trashed Hard Disk
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.203743.24232@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:37:43 GMT
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- I wonder if anybody has encountered any problems with Universe Master.
-
- I had my hard disk (which had been working perfectly for the past year)
- analyzed with UM and it reported 4 errors in the root directory of my
- first partition, namely on the 4 files PRODOS, SYSTEM, PRODOS. and
- PRODOS.1 (yes, I'm using Taifun Boot).
-
- I chose the default option to fix the above errors and then errors
- started appearing.
-
- 1st: When I boot up, Taifun Boot crashes. I booted up from a 3.5"
- system 6.0 disk and tried to delete PRODOS with the intention of
- renaming PRODOS. to PRODOS but Finder 6.0 refuses to touch the PRODOS
- file, giving me error $0051 (I think).
-
- 2nd: When I tried booting up again, UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS error message
- appears. I boot up from the 3.5 drive again and this time, the PRODOS
- file is missing from my root directory! I seriously don't know how this
- comes about. Never mind, I tried copying the PRODOS from the 3.5" disk
- to my hard disk but I get the same $0051 error again and it refuses to
- copy.
-
- 3rd: When I boot up ProSel from slot 5 and use the Volume Repair: Test
- File Structure option on my first partition, I got 11391 errors!!!
- Every single file has at least the error BLOCK FREE! The 4 problematic
- files have the error BLOCK IN USE, SKIPPED.
-
- 4th: Now I can't boot up from my hard disk at all!! I can still access
- the files in the first partition. I know I can do a backup and then
- reformat it but I really don't have the energy to backup 32 meg of data
- (I don't have enough diskettes too!) and slowly copy back every single
- one again.
-
- Would appreciate it if anybody could offer any help on this. Seems that
- no software, not ProSel, not Salvation, not even UM itself would repair
- my hard disk!! A low level block access with ProSel's Zap show's that
- block $0002 and all the directories are still intact.
-
- BTW, does ProSel's BLOCK FREE error mean that the file contains a block
- which is marked as free in the volume bit map?
-
- - DOTW -
-
-