psurge@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter) (12/01/90)
I am in desparate need of help!!! Last night I was working on my system and
I had my hard drive running. All night I was booting off of the hard drive
as I tested some modifications I was making to my ST. I had bumped the hard
drive but never had it crash. As I put everything away for the night, I parked
the HD and turned everything off, then rescrewed the HD case back on, (I had
the screws from the back of the case off of it, and it rattles so I was putting
the screws back in. Anyway, I barely even moved the hard drive and when I tried
to reboot, the Hard drive is seen as unformatted.
I would imagine that the boot sector got messed up somehow. Is there some way
to resotre the boot sector and restore the Hard drive itself? I do have
backups, but they are from last month, and I have done mucho stuff since then.
It has been mentioned to me that there is a backup boot sector on the disk
similar to the way the FATS are backed up. I have the Meg-A-Minute backup
program which will restore the boot partition, but I don't have any of the
first disks where the boot partition is stored. Is there a program that will
allow you to manually enter the boot sector and at least get all the new stuff
from the hard disk?
Thanks in advance...(Oh, are there any IBM utilities like Nortons that will do
this? I can run them under PC Ditto if that is the case...)
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