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I am suffering from the bug that is reported in several places on the
Apple Support web site currently.

Apparently, the drivers in Drive Setup that come with OS 7.6 through 8.0
cause macs with IDE drives (such as the Performa 6360 with 1.2 gig IDE
that I am dealing with) to become unable to mount the disk out of the
blue.  The problem can be fixed by installing the driver from Drive
Setup 1.3.1, or so the site claims.

Unfortunately, by the time I found this out, I had already butchered my
drive using Norton 3.5.1.  I was able to get the drive to mount with
repeated Disk Doctor passes, but the directory shows only garbage (i.e.
the desktop file has become all screwed up).  Rebuilding does nothing,
and both Disk First Aid and Norton say the disk is fine now.

I am attempting to salvage some of the files on the drive using Norton
Unerase.  Directory scan brings up nothing.  The only way I am able to
find files is by using File Type scan or Text scan.  File Type brings up
a ton of stuff -- evidence that everything is pretty much still on there
somewhere -- but it only brings up files that it recognizes, and
resource files (and plenty of them!)

Can anyone suggest a course of action?  Am I pretty much stuck with the
above methods?  Is there any hope of salvaging a map of the files that
on the drive in limbo?

Please help!  Please!  Thank you...

-Mark Edwards
maedward@orednet.org