Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UMRVMA.BITNET!S071768 From: S071768@UMRVMA.BITNET (Kevin Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Hard disk crash! Message-ID: <8701130219.AA27277@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:08:45 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701130219.AA27277 Posted: Sun Jan 11 22:08:45 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 05:08:54 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 30 I have an ATARI SH-204 with a very big problem. I think that I exceeded the 40 folder limit since garbage suddenly appeared in the directory windows. So I wrote off some of the stuff that wasn't backed up and attempted to reformat. It just wouldn't do it (well it did a so called format that took 1 second and didn't change anything). Can anyone help? Some symptoms are: (1) After reboot Drive C: shows a copy of the contents of the auto folder of the boot disk. All programs give TOS error #35 when a double-click is performed. (2) Writing to this disk caused all titles to turn to jibberish (and it adds many new icons). (3) Using HDX under the partion edit it shows 87.2Mb in partion 1 and 40.7Mb in partition 4 with the others unused and 0 Mb unused. (4) Using the markbad option gives an alert box stating "Logical sector out of range". In all of the talk on the net about hard disks I haven't heard of this problem before. I would be very grateful for any help that I might receive. (I really want to be able to use my hard disk again!) Kevin Schneider BITNET: S071768@UMRVMA Acknowledge-To: