ebth@rhi.hi.is (Eggert Bjarni Thorlacius) (02/18/91)
Hello all.
Yesterday I decided it was time to optimize my hard disk. Of course I didn't
have to back up, because DiskExpress has always worked before, and besides, I
backed up last year :-)
Well, the impossible happened! DiskExpress claimed it couldn't read/write
one block on the disk and when I quit, the Finder didn't see any files
("30Mb used for 1667 files, none of which is present") I have run SUM and
Norton and now I can't even mount the thing!
It seems that the catalog tree, B-tree and volume bitmap have all gone "bad".
My guess is that DiskExpress moved one(or all) of them to a bad block.
Now for the questions:
1) Can I get my files back?
(I had just installed FileSaver if that helps)
2) Is my disk safe? Can I just format it and pretend nothing happened, or
is the disk itself damaged?
Thanks very much in advance.
Eggert Thorlacius
University of Iceland
ebth@rhi.hi.is
P.S. A little advice:
When FileSaver says:"Your disk is fragmented. Run a defragmentizer", don't
listen to it!