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From: alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A Hard disk problem
Message-ID: <1414@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 11:10:49 GMT
References: <439@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <439@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White) writes:
> I was happily installing [M2] onto my SH204 hard disk, using the Desktop
> to copy disk 3 of 4 when the blasted ST collapsed in a heap..
> Vertical lines appeared on the screen, and I had to power off..

Is it possible that the first crash was caused by an undetected floppy
media change (DS to SS) ? Than, if TOS suddenly stood  in the forest,
couldn't it be that it did undefined write actions to the HD ?

> 
> Sadly, the result is that the \M2\FTL directory I was installing into
> is totally corrupted: if I open it with the Desktop the ST crashes again,
> complete with vertical lines.

Was this your first experience with the TOS folder problem, in add ?

> 
> The rest of the disk is fine however.

If you write to this hard disk, it wouldn't be much longer !

> 
> So, what I want to do is remove the garbaged directory and start again.

The best you can do, I think, is not to write to this disk any more :-)
But, to keep being serious, wouldn't it be easier to ARC the folders you have 
on your HD to floppy disks, format the HD, and reinstall the folders ?
Sure, this also would take at least 2 hours, but what about the time you
have to spend to write such a utility you plan ?

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