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- From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Vanishing partitions
- Message-ID: <3173@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 17:03:13 GMT
- Sender: news@isgtec.com
- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario
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- Well, after thinking "it'll never happen to me", it has. I can't access
- any partitions on my hard disk. I was working on a program for a few
- hours (of course), compiled it, ran it, and boom, 4 bombs, machine reboots,
- and I'm looking at just drive A and B icons. I tried some obvious things,
- cold boot, turning computer off and on after a while, no go. Ok, powered
- down everything for 1 minute, then hard drive on, then computer on, same
- thing, just A and B icons. So I figured the boot sectors on drive C must
- have been zapped, so I ran ICDBOOT.PRG from a floppy, it seems happy,
- I install a drive C icon, click on it, get "Drive does not exist...".
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- So, in summary, I can't get at any partitions on the drive. Can anybody
- suggest something? Surely I haven't lost all the partitions? I don't care
- if I lose the C partition, it's backed up. But the whole drive? I don't
- want to start repair/recover utilities until I try some other alternatives.
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- Hardware: ICD ADSCSI+ adaptor, ICD software, Maxtor 120 meg scsi disk.
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- advTHANKSance.
- - kn
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- Old programmers never die, they just log off.
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- ken@isgtec.com [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ] Ken Newman
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