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From: akcs.clemon@wcbcs (Craig Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DH0: Disk Validation Error
Message-ID: <[2606c15e:3365.3]comp.sys.amiga;1@wcbcs>
Date: 21 Mar 90 00:40:38 GMT
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>>the system can't find it??  Is it necessary to re-format the hard-drive
>>at this point...is there some less drastic technique which will get me
>>my disk back?

Have you tried the PD program FixDisk?  It can be used as a last resort by
typing 
'fixdisk doom'.  This sets is into an untested mode where it works on HDs. 
I used it on an FFS floppy that was totally destroyed "Non-DOS Disk" style
just to see what it would do.  It found ALL of the files and repaired the
bad block (The ROOT block) with an interesting algorithm to try to decode
the poor block.  After a "WRITE?  yes/no" requestor it corrected the disk. 
No Problems.  The program is quite intuition based and looks much like a
file requestor with several permitted operations on files, tracks or the
entire disk.  Might be worth looking into.

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