mp1w#@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) (03/09/87)
ReSent-From: postman#@andrew.cmu.edu ReSent-To: nntp-xmit#@andrew.cmu.edu Return-path: <mp1w#@andrew.cmu.edu> To: outnews#ext.nn.comp.sys.mac@andrew.cmu.edu (Outbound News) I have an 800K HFS disk on which the Master Directory block is trashed. (at least according to FEdit 3.7+) I scanned the entire disk and got no media errors, so I can only assume that its contents are trashed, and that the files are still intact. Is there any way to (manually or otherwise) reconstruct the blocks, since the finder won't even recognize the disk as more than a frisbee without them. Does the commercially available FEdit+ hnadle HFS recontructions? Any other hints appreciated. Also, the old (pre HFS) FEdit documentation had a beautiful section dealing with MFS disk format, which tracks were what, where the directory lived, etc. Is there anything similar for HFS? I checked for Tech Notes dealing with the subject and didn't find any. This might help me to manually redo the disk. Marc Pawliger mp1w@andrew.cmu.edu mp1w@cmuccvma.bitnet
ngg@bridge2.UUCP (03/10/87)
In article <542237269.1056.mp1w.knox.ibm032@andrew.cmu.edu>, mp1w#@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) writes: > I have an 800K HFS disk on which the Master Directory block is trashed. > (at least according to FEdit 3.7+) I scanned the entire disk and got > no media errors, so I can only assume that its contents are trashed, > Is there any way to (manually or otherwise) reconstruct the blocks, > since the finder won't even recognize the disk as more than a frisbee > without them. Does the commercially available FEdit+ hnadle HFS > might help me to manually redo the disk. You might try using Disk First Aid to recover that disk, or you might try using Copy II Mac in sector copy to recover the files from the damaged disk, this has worked for me before on disks that could not be read... I hope this works for you I know that losind data is a pain....backups... are important...with valuable data... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norman Goodger @Bridge Communications !bridge2!ngg (415) 969 4400 Ex:445 Sysop-MACINFO BBS @415-795-8862 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------