[comp.sys.mac.misc] Tool for mounting damaged disk partition

carl@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas) (12/15/90)

Sorry about the cross-posting, but I want to reach as many "knowledgeable"
people in the shortest time.

I have a disk partitioned with silverlining from LaCie and one of my 40Meg
partitions was damaged.  Silverlining told me that continuing might make it
worse, and I didn't listen.  It's worse.

When I go into silverlining to mount the partition, it says it is OK.  BUT,
when I exit to finder (running without multi-finder) I get the message:

    Not enough finder memory to handle disk "grumpy"

This is not the "Out of Finder Memory" message I posted about earlier this
week.  I've tried using multi-finder and increasing the finder memory in the
about box, from 320 (160 won't handle multiple partitions) to 512, 1024 or
even as high as 4096.

I need a tool that will check the partition or repair a damaged disk structure
on a partition without mounting it for the finder.  There appear to be a few
repair programs available that will work on a damaged floppy, but nothing that
I've been able to locate that will repair a SCSI disk partition.

As a last resort, I am prepared to simply backup the rest of the partitions and
reformat and rebuild the system... but that takes 6 hours of inserting 1.44M
floppies to backup and restore the system, not counting reloading/re-installing
system software and formatting the disk.

ANYONE WITH HELPFUL INFO, PLEASE EMAIL to carl@tardis.tymnet.com as soon as
possible.  I can download any PD tools you can name from Sumex or other any
otehr FTP site, or you can mail me a binhex'ed (and stuffit/compactor) file
and I can install it and try it out.

ADVthankthankthankANCE

-Carl
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