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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fsck for a hard disk?
Message-ID: <3396@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 90 06:44:40 GMT
References: <56897@bbn.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
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In article <56897@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
|I've managed to mess up my hard disk a little bit.  Disksalv is all
|well and good, but far as I can tell [and I'd _love_ to be proven
|wrong!!] it is pretty useless for your biggest device, since there is
|nothing big enough to disksalv the device _to_.

     Sure there is!  Get yourself a *big* stack of formatted floppy
disks and settle down for a nice long session of disk swapping.  (Well,
they don't have to be preformatted, but it goes faster.)  Then type
"Disksalv from DH1: to DF1:" (or whatever drives you're using). 
DiskSalv will happily salvage the hard drive partition to your stack of
floppies.  It works just fine, trust me -- I've done it.

|  fsck on Unix has the
|nice property of doing much of what disksalve does... but it manages to
|do it *in*place*.  Is there an equivalent trustworthy utility for Amy?

     That would certainly be a nice utility to have.  Certainly the disk
validator doesn't cut it, and as for DiskDoctor, the less said, the
better. 

|Thanks..
|  /Bernie\

     You're welcome.  "Glad to be of service."

                                    --dds

Dale D. Snell      dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM      74756.666@compuserve.COM
"Nice house.  Good tea."