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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Rick_Michael_Cortese
- From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: SpartaDos trashing directories!!!
- Message-ID: <64753@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 07:54:07 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug26.154856.12332@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
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- I've lost a disk or two to SD, but I'm not sure if it was me banging
- hardware registers or SD. It happened when I had a disk nearly full &
- a SAVE did me in. At the time I thought the problem was the save took up
- all the free sectors & somehow a directory sector was either used out right
- or SD tried to grab another sector to expand the directory & nothing was
- left. I also had more then one disk's boot sectors go bad & get the famous;
- "Unrecognized disk format" for that you just need to use a sector copier with
- an intact SD disk & copy the 1 sector to the scrambled disk.
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