My highest hopes, of course, are for option four. I should be done by next pancake tuesday. Hope you have a second scratch hard disk you can experiment with if you haven't I'd go with option four.įour: Put the disk out on a sunny day and hope for a cosmic ray to flip the offending bits back for you.Īnd having munged the disk, I suppose you then have to hope that reinstating the data doesn't unmunge it again.Ĭrap! I never thought of trying to write the label! Sacred bloo I must be losing it.įailing that it's Factory Restore Time (FaRT) again. I assume it's a value stored on the disk that it causing your problems. Horrible, horrible third alternative: Low level disk editor, find where the offending 0.0 is stored and change it. The beauty of using an ancient disk version is that it won't understand some of the clever stuff never versions write to the disk, and so blithely overwrites them, whereas newer versions may see something they don't like and balk. Second suggestion - if you've got an really old NT Boot floppy (I used an NT 3.1 version, IIRC), you can get it to blank the disk and start again. Trivial first suggestion: Try rewriting the disk label to it. Weary Crescent computer nerd - rest yourself here. Mornington Crescent - Let Me Check My Notes
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