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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: ProSel saves yet one more life ...
Message-ID: <900729065503.044650@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Date: 29 Jul 90 06:55:00 GMT
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Well gang, I replaced my dead Everex HD with a CMS 60M drive and booted
up ProSel to restore everything.  I had a harrowing hour or so trying to
figure out how to deal with one bad block on the first backup disk
(somehow it slipped through even though I had backed up using verify.)
The trick was to copy the bad disk to a new one with CopyII+ and use the
read/write sector mode to try to retrieve what it could out of the bad
block and rewrite that one too.  It turns out the block was in the
middle of a font so no serious damage was made.  (The font looks OK --
haven't done a bit-by-bit comparison.)  After that was done (I had
visions of restoring the whole thing file-by-file with selective
restore) all went well.  There did, however, seem to be one correctable
problem:  after restoring everything I ran volume repair to check on the
directory structure.  About two screens worth of files (1/10 maybe) had
"bad file block count".  I let it fix those and things seem OK.  Anybody
know if there is some kind of bug there?  (This was version 7.1 of
ProSel16 -- I also restored a week later's incremental made under V8.49
-- only a half dozen disks' worth -- and it came through perfectly, with
no errors.)

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil