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Mark Edwards wrote:

> 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

There is a patch for Norton so it will work correctly with System 8.  If
you can repair the drive with that, good.  If not, reformatting is the only
way.