881045m@aucs.AcadiaU.ca ( MUISE) (06/15/91)
I have a critical Appleworks2.2 doc (word-proceesor). The file can not be B opened . It can not be copied as a file (only the entire disk ). I get I/O error on block $6920. I also go an directory error $51 . I tried Jumpstart to read the file as text , and it said
881045m@aucs.AcadiaU.ca ( MUISE) (06/15/91)
I have a critical Appleworks2.2 word-pro. doc. that is corrupted. I can not open it , even as a text file in Jumpstart . I get directory error $51 and error block $2D . The file can't be copied as a file , only as part of the entire disk . (It's on a 3.5) I also got I/O error on block $6920 . I thought 3.5 only had 1600 blocks ?!?! I tried to view the file as text and as hex in CopyII+9.1 no dice . I used the disk mapping utility and the file itself is fragmented all over the disk. I used GS/OS to get info and it still gives valid info (ie 16.5k , type , etc) . How can some info still be there and the rest not(ie the text itself) . This is a critical file for a local business . The apple dealer has NO tools to help his customers , so I'm the last resort . HELP. P.S. sorry about the previous posting , I had a system problem . -Richard , still fumbling away in UNIX !!
slhood@bluemoon.uucp (Stephen L. Hood) (06/16/91)
881045m@aucs.AcadiaU.ca ( MUISE) writes: > > > I have a critical Appleworks2.2 word-pro. doc. that is corrupted. > I can not open it , even as a text file in Jumpstart . I get > directory error $51 and error block $2D . The file can't be > copied as a file , only as part of the entire disk . (It's > on a 3.5) I also got I/O error on block $6920 . I thought > 3.5 only had 1600 blocks ?!?! I tried to view the file as text > and as hex in CopyII+9.1 no dice . I used the disk mapping > utility and the file itself is fragmented all over the disk. > I used GS/OS to get info and it still gives valid info > (ie 16.5k , type , etc) . How can some info still be there and > the rest not(ie the text itself) . This is a critical file > for a local business . The apple dealer has NO tools to > help his customers , so I'm the last resort . HELP. > > P.S. sorry about the previous posting , I had a system problem . > -Richard , still fumbling away in UNIX !! Hmmm. 'Tis a nasty problem. I believe that I have seen some utilties (advertised in A+/Incider) to salvage damaged AppleWorks files. You might want to look there. Of course, there is a little utility called DARK that always worked wonders on my damaged disks. However, I always used that back in the days of DOS 3.3. I'm really not sure if DARK will a) work on a ProDOS disk, or b) work on anything other than a 5.25" disk. Anyone else have some ideas? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Hood "WARNING: MOS circuits are subject to damage from static discharge!" Internet: slhood@bluemoon.uucp UUCP : ...osu-cis!n8emr!bluemoon!slhood