Is there any way to recover my "quick collection" from a corrupt catalog?

Lightroom will not repair the catalog. Message, "cannot read or write to the drive"?????

Maybe the drive is read-only or write-protected? Maybe the folder that contains the catalog file is read-only or write-protected? Maybe you don't have permissions to write in the folder that contains your catalog?
And if those fail, you should restore your catalog file from a recent backup.

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This is not accurate.
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You agreed to erase the disk - the error here is yours (sorry for being blunt, but you shouldn't really expect Apple to account for uncommon user mistakes). Frankly people shouldn't be editing disks when there are non backed up volumes connected but sometimes it's a hard lesson to learn.
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