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OS 9 + Norton 6 usually works...
Authored by: heavyboots on Mar 06, '03 08:11:25PM

Yes, it's a lame thang, but I've fixed this sort of thing successfully with Norton. I think this is the one where you end up with a lovely folder of alias's to possibly damaged files.

For entertainment value, however, my boss recently lost his entire Workspace partition during a brownout, as it crosslinked his directory somehow. OS X, in its infinite wisdom, noticed the missing volume at reboot, realized the Home folder was supposed to be there and so helpfully created a very small "pretend" volume with default prefs for a fresh user. Now that scared the hell out of him! And the capper was that since this is an MDD G4 Apple didn't bother to include an OS 9 boot disk, so I spent about an hour and a half scavenging the OS 9 disk image off the OS X install CD, stuffing various disk utilities on it and burning the whole thing with Toast as a bootable OS 9 disk that could see the lovely new ATA133 bus (old 9.2.2 disks just don't even mount the drives off that bus, which is also scary for any audience members).

Once I got all that pieced together though, Norton blazed through and fixed it first try. I think I earned my bonus for the year. :-)

wheeee...



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