BRESNAHA@BCVAX3.BITNET (04/30/87)
Greetings:
I recently 'blew' a sector on track $11 sector E on a DOS 3.3
diskette. Needless to say, a few files were wiped out. Question:
how can I rebuild this one sector? Will a standard restore VTOC
program work? If you can help, please respond.
Oh, and no, I've not re-written any track on the disk, it's only
the one sector on track $11 that doesn't work. All other sectors on the
disk are perfect, and untouched.
Thanks for the help.
--Scott Bresnahan
Boston College
(BRESNAHA@BCVAX3 via Bitnet)mw22#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Alan Wertheim) (05/02/87)
Scott,
Buy the book Beneath Apple Dos from Quality Software. It has a program
called Fixcat, which will help you find your lost files, and a program called
Zap that will help you reconstruct the catalog entries. The book describes
how to do all this in detail. Or buy the disk Bag of Tricks from the same
company. This disk has an automated version of Fixcat, which will fix your
disk for you.
Quality also puts out Beneath Apple ProDos and Bag of Tricks II for
ProDos. Their address is:
Quality Software
21601 Marilla Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311
(818) 709-1721
Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Arpa: mw22@andrew.cmu.edu
Bitnet: mw22@cmuccvma
UUCP: ...!{seismo, ucbvax, harvard}!andrew.cmu.edu!mw22#mkao@pnet01.CTS.COM (Mike Kao) (05/02/87)
Since the directory's trashed, you'd have to scan the disk for the track/sector lists of all existing files. With that data, you could then "reconstruct" the VTOC entries, except the filenames (which I assume you could figure out). To insure my reception of any replies to any of my posts, please reply via mail instead of replying through the board. ____________________________________________________________________________ | | | Mike "The Metalhead" Kao: | | | | UUCP: {akgua,hp-sdd!hlpabs,sdcsvax,nosc}!crash!pnet01!mkao | | ARPA: crash!pnet01!mkao@nosc.arpa | | INET: mkao@pnet01.CTS.COM | |____________________________________________________________________________|