Re: Master Directory Block Trashing

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From: ngg
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1987 18:56

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In article <542237269.1056.mp1w.knox.ibm032@andrew.cmu.edu>, mp1w#@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) writes:
> I have an 800K HFS disk on which the Master Directory block is trashed.
> (at least according to FEdit 3.7+)  I scanned the entire disk and got
> no media errors, so I can only assume that its contents are trashed,
> Is there any way to (manually or otherwise) reconstruct the blocks,
> since the finder won't even recognize the disk as more than a frisbee
> without them.  Does the commercially available FEdit+ hnadle HFS
> might help me to manually redo the disk.

You might try using Disk First Aid to recover that disk, or you might
try using Copy II Mac in sector copy to recover the files from the damaged
disk, this has worked for me before on disks that could not be read...

I hope this works for you I know that losind data is a pain....backups...
are important...with valuable data...


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Subject: Re: Master Directory Block Trashing
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Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 13:56:44 EST
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Summary: fixing disks

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