Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!darwin.ntu.edu.au!caldwell_m From: caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DiskDoctor 1.3.5 and DOS 2.0 Message-ID: <1990Nov20.101115.393@darwin.ntu.edu.au> Date: 20 Nov 90 00:41:15 GMT References: Lines: 20 In article , wemmp@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) writes: > I have had very favorable experiences with fixdisk with in-situ recoveries. > But it is a little bit slow .. :-) It was only designed for up to about > a meg or so. I was even able to recover the mess that diskdoctor made! > Note that this was a repair, not salvage.. The drive was completely stable > for about a week before I did a complete backup/format/restore. Me too. For some reason the directory block of my hardisk gets cleared sometimes. I don't know why. Fixdisk just re-creates the root-directory. I then go on as normal. Before fixdisk I had to try to salv my whole HD (Which wouldn't work on the old disksalv) (and)or start from scratch. > Peter Wemm > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > wemmp@cutmcvax.oz.au (wemmp@cutmcvax.oz or ..!munnari!cutmcvax.oz.au!wemmp) > "VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix." - w.davidson Malcolm Caldwell CALDWELL_M@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU Darwin Australia FIDO: 3:690/648.3