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Hard Disk Quandry

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From: Charles S. Roberson
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1987 13:18
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Another plea for help.  A while back my hard disk had to be sent off
for repair (it needs it again <sigh>) so i made an image backup using
David Small's Meg-a-minute Backup.  My drive is partitioned into 4
roughly equal partions of 5meg each with the 4th partition just a big
scratch area.  Well, i didn't have 28 disks (only 21) so i decided
that the stuff in the fourth partition (dimension?) could just fade
into the twi-light zone and i backed up partitions 1-3.

Ok, i get the drive back (they told me it was a new drive and i believed
them until the problem reappered and i checked the serial numbers) and
I reformatted it.  (well, being a hard disk neophyte, i never wrote
down the sizes of the original partitions (or if did, i sure don't know
where i put them). I tried to do it from memory and then i restored
the images of the first three partitions.  I must have guessed wrong
and partition 3 overwrote part of partition 4 so, now, whenever i try
to access partition 4 the system hangs ( i have to press reset ).

Does anyone know how i can revive partition 4 to the proper size
without destroying any other information on the disk?  I would
appreciate it very much and hold you dear to my heart for the rest
of my life (well, for the rest of day at least!).

Thanks a million,
-chip


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PS.  The hard disk is a SUPRA.
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Subject: Hard Disk Quandry
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 09:18:41 EDT
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