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From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Help!
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 10:16:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 10:16:00 1987
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My PRO 350 lost its hard disk over the long weekend, and, true to form,
I had some stuff on there which hadn't been backed up.  (It'd been
completely reliable for four years!) The failure appears to be a bad
boot block, so chances are the data I want are intact; the problem, of
course, is how to get at it when I can't boot.  Does anybody have any
ideas?  I'd like to find some way to boot something from floppies,
enough to recover the data I'm interested in, or some way to temporarily
run a machine with two hard disks (I have a friend with another machine,
with which I can play mix-n-match hardware pieces).

Finally, does anyone remember the name of the magic file you're supposed
to put in [ZZSYS] that autoboots into an application?  I think it's
FIRSTAPPL.PTR or something like that, but as I recall you have to get it
exactly right, and, of course, it's not obviously documented.

Thanks in advance for any information.