mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless) (08/29/88)
I recently had a hard disk meltdown; it zeroed out most of the first FAT, all
of the second FAT, the entire root directory, and the first dozen or so
clusters, containing a number of subdirectories. (Ouch.) Fortunately, the
subdirectories containing the files I most wanted to recover were intact, and
since I had recently reorganized my disk, most of them were contiguous.
I gathered the information I needed to reconstruct the FAT, manually edited it
using the Norton Utilities Advanced Edition, which has a FAT editor, and
recreated a root directory, containing subdirectory entries pointing to the
recovered directories (with the DIR attribute bit set, of course). I restored
only the first FAT manually, and then used Norton's sector copy function to
copy it to the second.
DOS now recognizes these reconstructed files and subdirectories, like nothing
unusual had happened. Norton, however, will not allow me to change directories
to one of the recovered subdirectories; any attempt to do so results in the
message "There are no subdirectories on this disk." I can select a subdirect-
ory as a FILE, and then display it, and Norton will display it in directory
format. Any ideas?
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