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From: itch@cbnews.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: help my hard drive & diDiskSalv problems
Keywords: dh1: not a dos drive disksalv headonfire
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.191714.10892@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 19:17:14 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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My hard drive probem:
   Last weekend my hard drive freaked out.  I have a 40meg SupraDrive
   in two 20meg partitions.  My amiga decided that dh1: was no longer a dos
   drive, so it refused read it.  Incedentaly this seems to have
   happened right after I saved a song with MED 2.0 (coincidence?).

DiskSalv 1.42 problems:
   So I used DiskSalv 1.42 to recover my files from dh1: to floppies.
   It took me about 5 trys to get disksalv to work.  It would start
   counting blocks, and then just hang.  It finally worked with
   this invocation:  'disksalv dh1: df0: ffs format nodos' .  I'm sure
   it wasn't the first time I tried those arguments either.  At this
   point disksalv wouldn't even format the floppies.  Was this because of
   the 'nodos' argument?  My format command is sys:system/format which 
   is where I thought it was supposed to be.  Anyway...I did finally get
   all my stuff from dh1: onto (20) floppies.

What now???
   I'm not sure what I need to do now.  Please don't tell me I have
   to reformat the entire drive.  I don't think I can format just
   a partition, can I?  My drive manual says something about 'zeroing'
   my drive or partition.  This sounds like what I should do but the
   manual really doesn't say that much about what 'zeroing' is.  

My questions:
   1) What might have caused my dh1: to no longer be a dos drive?
   2) What was the deal with DiskSalv?
   3) Now what do I do to my hard drive?

ANY comments would be greatly appreciated!!  Thank You Thank You Thank You.


RichBrack  
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