dnewman@ut-emx.UUCP (dnewman) (01/12/90)
Help!
The Sequence: 1) Insert Floppy. 2) See Dialog indicating the floppy is
unreadable. 3) Cancel 4) Start MacTools. 5) Insert purportedly bad floppy.
6) Floppy comes up, but is listed as locked, even though the tab is in the
unprotected position. 7) Quit MacTools 8) Observe that the floppy comes up
OK in the finder now, but is still listed as locked.
What Gives? This has happened to me several times now. Is my floppy drive
going south on me? Any advice on how I can recover these disks? I can copy
the data off them after the above procedure, but I'd really like to know
what is going on.
Thanks for any information,
>>Davednewman@ut-emx.UUCP (Dave Newman) (02/03/90)
Regarding my question about a potential bad floppy and/or floppy drive.
The main symptom was that I was getting disks that were acting
locked even though they weren't in fact locked. Someone suggested
rebuilding the desktop file, but the machine wouldn't do that since
it thought that the disk was locked. The solution turned out to be
to rewrite the boot blocks using SUM II.
>>Dave