jensend1@yvax.byu.edu (05/13/91)
I left my Atari ST running while I was gone for about an hour - it was supposed
to finish moving about 400 files from one partition of the hard drive to
another while I was gone. I was using the Universal Item Selector for the
operation. When I came back, everything seemed okay, but when I later tried to
access a different partition, it had disappeared from the list of available
drives in the item selector! Now when I try to open the drive D: partition
from the desktop, it says the partition does not exist...
Here's the quirk - I have AT Speed installed, and it reads the D:
partition just fine. All the files are there, it can read the directory, et
cetera. Only the ST has any problem. Even worse, I'm using HotWire as a
shell for the ST, and it can still run programs from the D: partition. I just
can't do any file manipulation on it.
I'm about ready to reformat the drive and start over. Before I do
that, does anyone know what the problem is? Can it be fixed without
reformatting? I'm not looking forward to formatting a whole bunch of floppies
to 720K just so I can back up the D: partition with a PC backup program. Your
ideas would be helpful.
Thanks!
David Jensen
Jensend1@byuvax.byu.eduekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (05/14/91)
In article <2309jensend1@yvax.byu.edu> jensend1@yvax.byu.edu writes: > Here's the quirk - I have AT Speed installed, and it reads the D: >partition just fine. All the files are there, it can read the directory, et >cetera. Only the ST has any problem. Even worse, I'm using HotWire as a >shell for the ST, and it can still run programs from the D: partition. I just >can't do any file manipulation on it. > I'm about ready to reformat the drive and start over. Before I do Don't reformat the drive. As long as HotWire can still run the programs on Drive D:, it seems everything should be intact. This may sound like a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. :^) Have you tried manipulating (copying, etc.) files with the desktop, or another file manipulation program? I use UIS III as well, and I don't understand the problem it would have with Drive D:. BTW, what do you see in UIS's drive listing? A,B,C,E,F, etc? -- ||| Ed Krimen [ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu or al661@cleveland.freenet.edu] ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 TWO WEEKS UNTIL GRADUATION!!