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From: jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Fixdisk
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:13:55 GMT
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caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:

> (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
> 
I've been hearing lots of good things about FixDisk.  Anyone know if a 
version is planned that will work on large hard drive partitions?

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