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- From: m_adlard@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (M Adlard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Vanishing partitions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.230912.19486@csd.brispoly.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 23:09:12 GMT
- References: <3173@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England
- Lines: 34
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- In article <3173@isgtec.isgtec.com> ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
- >
- >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...".
-
- I used to run a ST BBS here in England, using the same controller card, but
- with an Seagate drive (40megs/57formatted)
- One day my system did the same thing. I have been told that its something
- to do with the way the ST talks to the DMA port.
- I was also told that if I reduce the size of the first partion (logical drive
- C:) to its mimium size, and if memory serves me that was 1.8Megs this would
- reduce the chance of this screwup again.
-
- >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.
-
- In some cases the manual for the adscsi card said that you can re-create the
- partion information and so recover the drive, in practic I have not been able
- to do this. and it ment a re-format (hence the death of my BBS!)
-
- Sorry this is not to positive..
- --
- Matthew Adlard | m_adlard@csd.brispoly.ac.uk
-
- Any remarks made are my own views only.
-