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- From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
- Subject: Re: Cleared Harddisk...Help.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.112640.14000@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <A49703@HB.maus.de> <A12878@BN.maus.de>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:26:40 EST
- Lines: 45
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- In article <A12878@BN.maus.de> Gerhard_Oppenhorst@bn.maus.de (Gerhard Oppenhorst) writes:
- >Gerald Greenberg on Dec 5th, 1992:
- >
- >> Short version:
- >> I did something really stupid. When using ICD Format to try
- >> and redo a partition on a removeable, I accidentally hit
- >> CLEAR. Now the entire syquest platter shows no programs...I
- >> believe the programs are still there. Is there any way to get
- >> the directory to them back?
- >>
- >> Anyway, is there a way for me to fisk the drive? i.e. recover
- >> the directory (or whatever it is that was cleared)? Or do I
- >> just bite the bullet and start reloading everything?
- >
- >You cleard FAT and ROOT-DIRECTORY. You have only very little chance to
- >restore the data and this will be a manualy job!
- >
- >At first you should remeber all DIRECTORY-Entries in the ROOT-DIRECTORY
- >ans search for them on the disk (Folders and Files) and note the SECTOR-No
- >and create a new ENTRY in the ROOT-DIRECTORY. Then you should try a Tool
- >which allowes to restore this Folders and Files. But you have to use a Tool
- >wich allows you to collect the sectors because the FAT can give no
- >information. So you only might be able to restore TEXT-Files.
- >
- >Having done that you should continue with this in any of the restored
- >folders and so on ... :-((.
- >
- >As you see this job will take you weeks!
- >
- >Better bite the bullet wich will save you time :-).
- >
- >
- >Gerhard (LogiLex - Germany)
-
- Thanks to all who replied to my original post! I tried a
- couple of the suggestions I received, but didn't get anywhere.
- Furthermore, my cartridge was actually bad...I could NOT
- reformat it and have now discarded it. It took me about 3 or
- 4 days, maybe 10(?) hourse to reconfigure a new cartridge as
- close as I can remember to the former one that went bad. I
- guess this was easier than recovering the old info (even if it
- would have been possible)...all in all I was lucky to have
- copied the irreplaceable stuff before I blew it!
- --Gerry
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