Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What do you do about a trashed hard disk? Message-ID: <13965@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 23 Aug 90 14:34:39 GMT References: Reply-To: andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes: >My disk was just clobbered again. I ran diskdoctor and was notified >of unreadable files, blocks used twice, and duplicate keys. Yet in >the end the disk could not be validated. If diskdoctor can't >fix the disk sufficiently so the disk can be validated, then whats >the point of diskdoctor? Diskdoctor is designed to make the disk as readable as possible, so you can recover your data. It's not really designed to bring the disk back to 100% condition. It will, quite often, do this. However, it always says you should now copy your files off to a new disk and reformat the old one after being run to recover the disk. andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Of course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with a fake?" Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.