vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) (04/15/91)
My A3000 guru'd while trying to save an ILBM file with XLispStat running in the background. The drive which it was saving to now reports a "Volume Misc has a checksum error on disk block 87611" which comes up when trying to access the partition either while reading or deleting the offending file. It also comes up when accessing the drive on boot up. What can I do?? I tried HDToolBox and checked for Errors on Disk. There are none reported. I do not want to reformat the drive since I am out of floppy disks to store the data on (besides the partition is 50 meg). Help!! There are several very important files on the partition. How can I fix the problem? Disksalv does not seem likely. I also thought about using a disk utility such as NewZap or DiskZap. These do not seem compatible with a hard drive. NewZap references only by file and DiskZap seems to have no way to reference disk blocks by decimal number. Besides, I couldn't figure out what to do with the file when I get it on NewZap. Does someone have any suggestions, or could you direct me to any utilities which may be able to repair files or blocks with damaged checksums and validate the partition? Also, Filemaster will not write to the disk. Anything I do comes up with "Volume Misc not validated". Is there anything I can do? Please reply email ASAP since I have to get this partition working by tomorrow. Thanks very much, Veenu