CBBS(R) 4.0.3b 06/12/91 22:34:01 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 222078; next msg =44852; 369 active msgs. Prev. call 06/11/91 @ 21:05, next msg was 44850 Recording logon for next time... Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 12 KILLED. 11 SUMMARY. 24 06/11/91,21:06:02,222059,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#44850,10 06/11/91,21:57:14,222060,1,CHARLES ENGLUND,,2 06/11/91,22:41:03,222061,2,PETE CANTELE,,4 06/11/91,23:09:02,222062,2,ED FOSTER,,1 06/12/91,00:10:50,222063,1,ROY LIPSCOMB,,14 06/12/91,01:00:21,222064,1,MIKE KELLY,chicago il,10 06/12/91,02:36:10,222065,2,ALEX ZELL,, 06/12/91,03:17:47,222066,1,PETER YUAN,,6 06/12/91,09:26:55,222067,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,1 06/12/91,09:40:20,222068,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2 06/12/91,13:10:06,222069,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 06/12/91,13:33:00,222070,2,JOE SEROCKI,,1 06/12/91,13:35:19,222071,1,LANE LARRISON,,3 06/12/91,14:33:55,222072,1,HARV MEYERS,lisle/Ill,15 06/12/91,14:53:31,222073,2,GARY ELFRING,,1 06/12/91,16:27:46,222074,2,JOHN RICKETTS,Olympia/ WA, E#44851,6 06/12/91,18:08:32,222075,2,ARNOLD BOYD,,3 06/12/91,18:31:58,222076,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,3 06/12/91,21:44:24,222077,2,BOB NAGLICH,,3 ]Hi again, Ward....I was on in Dalton just a few minutes ago, and now I've checked in here....and I *still* retain asst sys-op status! Nice to see that this little gold gem remains, etched in time, a tribute to our history. Again,...take care! BOB NAGLICH, 06/12/91,22:34:05,222078,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 44850 06/11/91 WARD CHRISTENSEN => MICHAEL SHARTIAG: "R/FAT TABLES /REBUILDING" 44851 06/12/91 JOHN RICKETTS => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "THANKS YOU" Msg 44850 is 28 line(s) on 06/11/91 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to MICHAEL SHARTIAG re: R/FAT TABLES /REBUILDING You're into real "hacking" territory if your FAT is gone. First thing I'd do is get good with Norton Utility. If the drive were mine, I'd first check if the boot sector reflects the drive properly - i.e. number of clusters, etc. I have a program that can do that - or you can do it with Norton Utility - well, sort of do it - you can look at the boot sector and see if it "looks right" (one of those "I know, but I can't explain it" problems). If THAT is correct, then I'd see how much of the FAT is still good - either FAT 1 or FAT 2. If NONE of it is any good, I'd zero it. Then, I'd decide which of the files were most important - i.e. worth the effort to try to bring back. I'd then try to locate the directory entries for those files with NU - I think it can change directories, even if the FAT doesn't agree that there's a file there. I'd patch the directories back into existance - by putting an "" entry in the FAT for each. If it looked like a DIR went past one cluster, I'd try to find that cluster, and make the fat chain properly. Then I'd find the file, and I'd use the unerase utility to bring the file back, manually-selected-cluster by manually-selected-cluster. NOTE you might have to put an E5 in the first byte of the filename to be able to use unerase. The reason I'd use unerase is because it has a utility to view sectors, and add them to a chain of clusters, and rebuild the fat from that info - cluster by cluster, and file by file. VERY tedious work. I once zapped about 100 FAT pointers (wrote some garbage over 'em) and it took about 100 hours to reconstruct a few of the files. BUT I sure learned about FATs (I had no NU at the time - wrote some of my own utilities, such as to dump hard-to-read 12-bit fats). Msg 44851 is 04 line(s) on 06/12/91 from JOHN RICKETTS to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: THANKS YOU Thank you for coming up with a wonderful idea! I've been running a BBS here in Olympia for 8 years now. I just wanted to drop by and pay homage to GOD, as it were. Thanks again. John Ricketts, Sysop The Broken Citadel 206-866-YOYO No dup. chars. >Function:?