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From: schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FixDisk
Message-ID: <14709@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 90 13:31:20 GMT
References: <2725.tnews@tower.actrix.co.nz>
Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <2725.tnews@tower.actrix.co.nz> johnv@tower.actrix.co.nz (John Veldthuis) writes:
>Quoted from - a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs):
>> RE: fixing a trashed Hard Disk
>> writes:
>>
>>      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.
>>
>> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
>> [If the line eater were to move, where wou
>
>Where can I get this?
>I have version 1.0 which came off a Fish Disk but it only shows up one of
>my partitions which is 1.5 megs. It has ghosted the rest which are from 9
>to 16 megs. I have 5 megs of memory on a A2500/20.
>Is there an update to this program or do I need more memory.
>

Neither. The program is "officially" set up to work for floppies. The author
didn't want to take responsibility for you screwing up your hard drive, so
he put in a safety feature. If you want to work on a partition that is larger
than 5 MB you have to start the program from the CLI and type "fixdisk doom".
The "doom" qualifier allows you to work on partitions up to (I think) 40MB.
Read your docs, it explains this.

Personally I love this program. It is the only thing I know of that can 
validate hard drives, root out bad sectors, and undeleted large quantities of
files simply. 

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