Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET (03/05/90)
<Over the weekend I managed to completely blow away my hard drive. It wouldn't <boot, it wouldn't talk to my ST at all, even when I ran AHDI from floppy. < <Wouldn't do _nuthin'_. < <c60 meg, gone, all gone. < <Would you beleive that this has a happy ending? I had just made Well, it looks like the drive "felt formatted". This happens sometimes; I know several people who have had these problems. It also happened to me with the sh205 a few weeks ago. After I had reformatted the drive (of course!), someone who has faced this problem several times told me of a way to restore the drive, at least the partitions above c:\. He told me that usually only the first 8-10 kB were zeroed. So it was possible to reconstruct the later partitions with a hd-sector-editor like Supra's supedit.prg. Of course You have to know about the physical structure on the disk. So it is recommendable to use such a tool to extract the formatting and partitioning information, write it onto a sheet of paper and attach that to the case of You drive. Does anyone (eventually Atari engineers?) know about the reason for this problem? Even the people mentioned above --- all very experienced, doing hardware development for the ST and other computers --- had no idea. Michael Ritzert mjr@dmzrzu71.bitnet
jbww@ukc.ac.uk (J.B.W.Webber) (03/08/90)
In article <900305132338.807867@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY> Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET writes: ><Over the weekend I managed to completely blow away my hard drive. It wouldn't ><boot, it wouldn't talk to my ST at all, even when I ran AHDI from floppy. >< > >Well, it looks like the drive "felt formatted". This happens sometimes; >I know several people who have had these problems. It also happened to >me with the sh205 a few weeks ago. After I had reformatted the drive (of >course!), someone who has faced this problem several times told me of a >way to restore the drive, at least the partitions above c:\. He told me >that usually only the first 8-10 kB were zeroed. > >Michael Ritzert >mjr@dmzrzu71.bitnet Anyone with the time to write a tiny utility to just grab all the fat and directory structure, + write it to optionally : a) file on tracks near other end of disk b) floppy disk (to be run before switch off/ at boot time) An option to grab this info from a sequence of floppy disks would be nice. - sorry for suggesting more work for others, when I don't have the time cheers beau webber