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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What do you do about a trashed hard disk?
Message-ID: <3617@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 90 04:38:25 GMT
References: <chris.5660@genly.UUCP>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
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In article <chris.5660@genly.UUCP> chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes:
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|Is there something better than diskdoctor?  I've heard that disksalv
|is better.  But it doesn't work on hard disks.
|

     Say what?  DiskSalv most certainly *does* work on hard drives; I've
used it myself several times.  You'll need a stack of floppies, and a
lot of time, but it works quite well.

|Is there anyway to minimize the risk of trashing the disk when running
|a program known to be unstable.  Perhaps:

     The only thing I could suggest would be to not write to the disk. 
You could use Lock, I think.  Of course, if the program bypasses the
OS...

                                    Seizure later,
				    --dds

Dale D. Snell      dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM      74756.666@compuserve.COM
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