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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What do you do about a trashed hard disk?
Message-ID: <2904@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 21:42:53 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <chris.5660@genly.UUCP> chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly)
writes:

>Is there something better than diskdoctor?  I've heard that disksalv
>is better.  But it doesn't work on hard disks.

     Although DiskSalv can't fix up a disk in place like DiskDoctor
does (or claims to do :-) it can pull stuff from hard disks; it just
can't, of course, recover an entire hard disk to a floppy or RAM disk.
The FILE keyword lets you specify which files to recover.

     Another option is FixDisk, by Werner Gunther.  This one has
saved my bacon several times.  It can repair hard disk partitions
up to 48 megabytes in place, much like DiskDoctor, but it doesn't
make things worse, unlike DiskDoctor.  Recommended.

     Between these two programs, I've been able to recover from just
about anything.  In really bad cases, either program might hang, but
if I would reboot and try again things would usually straighten out.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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