Help for 1186 disk near death please!

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From: Henry Thompson
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1989 12:31

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A colleague has two month's worth of work stuck on an 80MB hard disk
on his 1186 which is currently unreadable.  It won't boot,
and Othello cannot bring it Online.  Check Drive finds several bad
pages, but cannot enter them.  Running the Confidence Test in Offline
Diagnostics 1.3e fails with the message

Physical Volume needs Scavenging
Failure code: 6
Error code: 82

On entry to the Bad Page Utility/Scavenger Tool, the message
"Unable to read Pilot data structures - Needs scavenging or
reformatting"
is displayed.  Attempting to display the bad page table fails.
Attempting to run the Scavenger dies with 0935.

Anybody out there any relevant experience which offers a way of
getting any data off this disk, or is it reformatting time for sure?

Henry Thompson, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, Scotland  Telephone: 031 225-7774

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