#HD failure
Hardware: 2000, ST-251 (MFM), 2090 Last night I turn on my machine and the
startup-sequence fails. Looks like a file is corrupted. Turns out dozens of
files appear to be corrupted. The situation deteriorates to the point where
the system crashes when some backups are attempted. A reboot laboriously
brings up Dh0: . Info shows gigabytes in use and (it follows) negative
gigabytes free. What's weird? Only (apparent) problems are with dh0: –
other two partitions are fine. More strange, I never got any "disk
write/read error" requesters. Just "File is not an object module" or "unable
to open..library." – that kind of stuff. The system was free of faults for
the 3 weeks since I set it up.
Okay, so next step is to reformat. No good. Format proceeds to end but
then DOS can't "Validate." Info shows the same wacky space information as
before. Now what? My girlfriend is mad 'cuz I didn't respond to her
advances while this was going on. This is serious!