Dead Filesystem HELP!

Jay Libove libove at vi.ri.cmu.edu
Tue Aug 16 23:39:39 AEST 1988


The unthinable has happenned! My system (a PCs Limited AT, running at
8 MHz, with a Seagate ST4096 80-meg drive as hd00 and a Seagate ST4026
20-meg drive as hd01, 2 megs RAM, running SCO Xenix 2.2.1 sysV/286)
crashed due to overheating yesterday.

I brought the system back up and the hard drive was scrambled. /etc/badtrk
(off the distribution SCO Xenix floppies) identified 215 bad tracks on
the 80 meg drive... I didn't let it write the new bad track table out.

I can't mount the drive from the Boot/Root installation floppy- I get
errors about bad superblocks. I can't boot it.

What I need now is a program that can recover filesystem data off of a 
damaged SCO Xenix filesystem. I don't care if it writes it all out to
backup floppies and loses all classification information (as long as it
doesn't lose the filenames) I just want my system back... Oh boy.

Any help at all on this will be MOST appreciated!

Best to mail back to me as libove at vi.ri.cmu.edu, or
(backbone)!cmucspt!vi.ri.cmu.edu!libove
since my home machine (libove.UUCP) is very dead :-(

Thanks
-jay libove (libove at vi.ri.cmu.edu)
-412 362 8983 (pittsburgh, pennsylvania)
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