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Hi

I have a Mac under Systen 7.5 with an attached APS 730MB external SCSI
harddrive.  The drive has 5 partitions.  Yesterday I started noticing Disk
I/O errors and crashed when I tried to use a particular partition named
"As Yet Untitled".  I ran Norton 2.0.1 and Disk First Aid for Sys 7.5 and
the results are below.  In short I was told that ther is a problem that
neither can fix.  I conferred with an APS technician and he said the best
I can do is to reformat the drive.

For the time being, I'd like to avoid that because I have no way to back
up the information I have stored.  Though it is not critical, I would not
like the burden of regathering/creating it.  I have deleted files I could
immediately spare, and in hopes of saving myself temporarily from any
anguish, I moved everything  I could to the other four partitions.

What I would like to know is if there is any potential for this problem to
migrate to the other partitions?  Also, is there anything I can do to save
reformatting?

Thanks!

DISTK FIRST AID RESULTS
      Checking disk ³As Yet Untitled².
      Checking disk volume.
      Checking extent BTree.
      Checking extent file.
      Checking catalog BTree.
      Problem:  Invalid sibling link, 4, 580
      Rechecking catalog file.
      Test done. Problems were found, but Disk First Aid cannot repair them.

NDD 2.0.1 RESULTS
      Norton Disk Doctor
      Report for ³As Yet Untitled²
      Tuesday, January 9, 1996 6:01 PM

      System Information:
      Machine Name: 
      8 Megabytes of RAM

      System Area Status:
      The Boot Blocks check out OK and indicate that this is a bootable disk.
      The Volume Information Block is OK.
      There were some problems with the Directory.  These problems have
NOT been fixed.

      Disk Statistics:
      This is an HFS disk.
      146,575,360 bytes total disk space.
      54,533,120 bytes used by 550 files in 79 folders.
      2,094,080 bytes used by the system area.
      89,948,160 bytes available on the disk (87,840K free).

      Disk Technical Information:
      This disk was initialized on Wednesday, April 19, 1995 7:29 PM
      This disk was last modified on Tuesday, January 9, 1996 4:12 PM
      There are 57,256 allocation blocks on this volume.
      The Allocation Size is 5 blocks (2,560 bytes).
      The volume bit map starts at sector #3.
      The first sector represented in the volume bit map is #19.

      File Status:
      550 files were scanned.
      374 had resource forks.

      The following files could not be read and are probably damaged.
      You should remove these files from your disk.
      As Yet Untitled:cannot delete:JPC001E.JPG
      As Yet Untitled:cannot delete:JPC001F.JPG
{BTW, I CANNOT DELETE THESE FILES}

      Technical Summary of Repairs:
      700:1802, A problem was found in the disk's directory.  
      Node=591, Error=missing index record.
      Status: Unable to fix.

      612:38, Some files on this disk are possibly damaged.  

      Summary:
      Some problems were found with this disk.  NDD did not fix these problems.

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