Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!alderaan 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 Lines: 39 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 ? -- alderaan OP RKOpdp (RSTS/E) FB Mathematik/Informatik RKO Berlin Dieffenbachstrasze 60-61 1000 Berlin 61