🚀 go-pugleaf

   I am in rather a nasty spot, and I would appreciate whatever experience
   anybody can pass on.

   I have a 5-meg Mac II with a Seagate ST557N (I think) 63 meg hard disc,
   which recently seems to have suffered a big enough trauma that it won't 
   even admit to the Finder that it exists.  Trying to boot from it gives
   the happy Mac face for a few seconds, with reassuring hard-disc access
   noises, then there's a pause, the video system resets, and I have the
   question-disc icon.

   I'm still desparately hoping to find some software that will fix the 
   bad blocks on the drive, but there is (I hope!) this alternative:
   I do have a full save of it, less current that I'd like, but at least
   it's done.  It was made with FastBack II a couple of months ago.

   My problem there is that when I experiment with trying to "restore" 
   the backed-up files to other diskettes (even FastBack won't acknowledge
   that the hard disc exists right now -- clearly I may have to reformat
   before I can do the full restore) FastBack II complains it can't find 
   the "history file(s)".  True enough, I don't see a separate file on 
   either the first, second, or 61st disc of the backup -- the 61st being,
   I trust, the last, since it has some space left on it whereas none 
   of the others do.

   The FastBack II manual is not encouraging about working around missing 
   history files -- it does not, in fact, seem to say anything about it.
   Is there any light anybody can shed?  If I can neither repair the bad
   blocks on the disc, nor restore from the backup, I could be in 
   real trouble.

   By the way, does FastBack II ever get confused about what sort of 
   volume it's looking at?  From time to time, when I reset the choice 
   of volume for backup from/restore to ,the icons labelling the volume 
   names are mismatched: floppies or ramdisc are marked with a hard disc 
   icon.  Anybody know if this is expected.


   Thanks for any help,

   Alastair Milne