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Subject: Dont read this if you want to go to Disk Hell
Keywords: validation,disks, harddrives
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.225129.28751@csmil.umich.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 22:51:29 GMT
Reply-To: chymes@csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes)
Organization: The Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory
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DON'T use MRBackup of fish disk 270!!
From: chymes@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes)
Path: zug.csmil.umich.edu!chymes

Talk about a Trojen Horse.
A month ago, I had my first hard drive scramble. 
I didn't use a real backup program, so it took me a while to regain all my 
software. Now, I have completely re-installed  all that software, and I deside
that its time for a real backup program. I get MRbackup from ff270, and Backup
from ff258. I use MRbackup 'cause it was on a later disk, and looked much
more useful.
 Heh Heh Heh. MRBackup not only crashed every time I tried to use it, 5 times, 
IT GOD DAMM TRASHED MY FU*&*%$ HARD DISK!!!!!
Luckily, good old Matt came to the rescue and I got MOST of my stuff saved 
after 2 hours of backing up.
I used the disk-fixer wich came with my SCSI driver, and it supposedly 
"RESTORED" my file system. BUT I still cant write to the drive because 
even after rebooting, it wont validate.
How do  you fix a damaged (hard) disk so that it will be validated? Is there
 any way to fix a disk so that it will validate? I've got lots
of uncorrupted files. If I got a disk sector editor, coul I use it to solve
my problem? If I did fix it, how do you tell AmigaDOS that it's fixed?
I would be VERY greatful if someone could help me out of this mess. The
idea of re-installing all that software and data from floppy makes me sick.
Please!!
Thank You.
Charles Hymes




Mark Rinfret, if you see this,
 FLAME ON.... 
ARRRGHH!!!!! GRRRR!! :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( 
 FLAME OFF... 
send me mail, some of the bugs I could identify, even if I didn't see the disk 
damage till it was to late.
C.H.