clarke@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (cam clarke) (03/17/88)
I work in a computer center, helping users and answering questions. Part of
this work includes rescuing damaged Mac disks. Recently I've noticed
a rash of MS-Word 3.01 documents which have become damaged. Looking at
the files with FEdit+ reveals that one sector somewhere in each file is
unreadable because "Data Mark Checksum Incorrect." What exactly is this
problem? The huge quantity I've seen recently makes me suspect Word is
somehow causing this, but let me stress that I have no proof; perhaps
our Macintosh disk drives are slowly dying. In any case, is there a way
to read this sector? In the case of wordprocessing files, any data
recovered is a help, even if some of it is incorrect. Has anyone else
noticed these kind of errors, and if so, from what programs? For now,
I'm creating a new file, consisting of all readable sectors from the old
file, and then turning that into a file of type TEXT. Is there a better
solution?
-Cam Clarke
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