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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Hard drive woes ...
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.152201.4598@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 90 15:22:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Waterloo
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No, this isn't another "my hard drive died, what should I do?!?!" posting.
It's more like "my hard drive died, I know basically what to do, but the
software I can find to do it isn't being very helpful."

The last time my harddrive died I used Sectorama to fix it (just disconnected
the directory that had the problem within it).   What I'm wondering is

	is there a newer version of Sectorama than the one on Fish
	disk 108?  Or anything better.

The last time around it was easy to fix - my machine GURU'd while doing 
a copy to the drive, so the error was within a directory I didn't really
care about.

This time, it GURU'd while downloading MRBackup (thus the Irony[TM] ... I
was about to back it up again) _and_ with dcron running _and_ with Getty
running _and_ it was being UUCP'd down (I had just gotten the UUCP going
and was testing file copy) so the error is in any of a number of places.

So, I want something that will be more helpfull.

What would be useful would be something that follows the file structure
(as the startup validation does) and gives _detailed_ info about what
is wrong.  Then, I could go in and change something, do it again, 
change something, do it again, etc.

Thanks, 
 Blair
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