jah@briar.UUCP (Julie Harazduk) (08/14/86)
On a single floppy disk, I had two folders. One of them contained 3 MacDraw
images. I selected the first (one click on icon with mouse) and used the
pulldown menu to "print" (not inside the MacDraw application). It seemed
like a nice shortcut, until it crashed. My floppy was in the disk drive
when all this happened. The mouse froze and there was no keyboard response,
so I powered down (the floppy ejected) and then powered up. I rebooted the
system from the hard disk system floppy and then attempted to read my original
disk. The error message was as follows:
System error. This disk is unreadable.
Do you want to initialize?
I answered "EJECT." I tried to get some help from the systems people around
here but we don't have any utilities to read unformatted disks. I suspect
that one of the files on the disk is corrupted (the one I tried to Print),
but I don't think all of them are.
Does anybody out there have a utility that either: helps read unformatted
disks, or finds the next file on the disk? Even a diagnostic utility that
can explain what's wrong? I'd rather not through it away.
Thanks in advance,
Julie A. Harazduk {ihnp4|seismo}!philabs!jahbaron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) (08/24/86)
The problem of unmountable disks caused by a crash can usually be fixed by using a program like Copy ][ Mac to sector copy the damaged disk. Usually, the error status indicator on Copy ][ Mac shows one or two sectors have been clobbered. Copy ][ Mac reacts by writing out zeroes to the respective sectors on the target disk. 9 times out of ten you will find that the duplicate disk (with errors removed) will mount properly. jason ( baron@runx.oz && jasonh@psych44.su )