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Date:         Sun, 01 Mar 87 21:59:38 CST
From:         "University (of Houston) ACE (UACE)" <UACE0@UHUPVM1>
Subject:      Interesting
To:           ST Users <INFO-ATARI16@score.stanford.EDU>

Well, an interesting thing happened to my hard disk this weekend, I crashed
the D partition while using michtron utilities to recover a file.  I don't
know if the latest version fixes this, but I was upset non-the-less to find
out that recovering a file would crash the partition.

As it turns out, only the first sector was damaged, so a simple read rwabs from
drive E (which had the same size) to write rwabs on drive D fixed it.
However, some of the top level files were screwed up, and some of the files in
the directory I was trying to recover from were screwed up.  But I was able to
get drive D back online and save what I could before zeroing it out.  SOOOO...
If you have a bad partition, or get a bad partition on your hard disk, try
writing a little program which does a read RWABS from boot sector zero from a
partition of the same size and writing it to the boot sector of the bad
partition.  If this doesn't work, try one more sector, and keep trying one
more sector, for a few.  Chances are you will be able to recover some of the
STuff.  I will post a program which will do this, soon (like this week).

- Mike Vederman