peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (08/13/87)
I think I know the answer to this already, but I have to ask
just in case. A mac user here accidently copied a blank disk
on top of another disk (by dragging the icon on top of the
other icon). He intended to go the other way of course, but
it was over before he could do any thing. No files were copied,
but copying disks in this fashion does destroy directory information.
I've used fedit to examine the disk and all the data is still there
(a lot of it!). But its all scattered around and worse yet, its
in Macwrite format so there's lots of formatting junk embedded
in the middle of the text. I've tried piecing together various
sectors but Macwrite always rejects them. I've saved sectors in
a straight text file and wrote a program to filter out all non-ascii
characters except tab and return, and although the result isn't
bad, it would probably take just as long to fix up the formatting
in this file (reinserting bold and so on) as it would to give it
to a typist to reenter everything from scratch. My question is:
Does anyone know how to recreate a disk after this sort of damage
has been done? Even some info on how Macwrite stores files might
be useful. HELP!!!!
Peter W. Steele UUCP : {seismo|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter
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Canada B0P 1X0 PHONEnet : (902) 542-2201x121preese@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Phil Reese) (08/13/87)
In article <406@aucs.UUCP> you write: >I think I know the answer to this already, but I have to ask >just in case. A mac user here accidently copied a blank disk >on top of another disk (by dragging the icon on top of the Have you seen Steve Costa's article in the Fall/Winter '86 BMUG Newsletter? It is all about file recovery. He talks about a variety of programs to rescue MacWrite files. More importantly he tells you how to use a special disk from the BMUG library, Disk 50, to convert the damaged disk to a MFS volume. Once it is a MFS volume it is fairly easy to let Fedit go about recovering the files. It is a very good article, but may not be for the Mac novice. BMUG can be reached at 415-849-HELP, 1442A Walnut St., #62, Berkeley, CA 94709. Good luck, Phil Reese School of Education UC Berkeley preese@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu