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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