Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM!jrd From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Help! Message-ID: <19871130151605.2.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 10:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: GRACKLE.19871130151605.2.JRD Posted: Mon Nov 30 10:16:00 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 00:55:15 EST Sender: uucp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 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.