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From: NJ_GOKEM%FANDM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re: Harddrive woes...
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Date: 17 Jul 90 12:30:10 GMT
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From:   edu%"bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu"      "Blair MacIntyre" 12-JUL-1990
06:51:29.89
You Write:

>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
>--
>-- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student )
<-- bmacintyre@{watcgl, violet}.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca}
>--
>-- "IBM - you can buy better, but you can't pay more!" - C. Eisler

I use FIXDISK from fish disk 223, and CUGUG disk 20,
And I am very satisfied with it.
It can validate and rebuilt a directory from fileheaders, or rebuilt
file-headers from directory entries, delete files, undelete files etc.
It never failed to fix any disk for me.

Nils Gokemeijer (NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM)