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From: anlhille@rose.ucs.indiana.edu (Joseph Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: LZ .91 destroyed my workbench!
Summary: Can you help?
Keywords: lz,lharc,workbench,harddisk,crash
Message-ID: <1990Dec26.024739.6846@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 26 Dec 90 05:38:26 GMT
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Ok, this is what happened an hour or so ago:

I was ftp'ing stuff from abcfd20 (mostly ST/NT mods), and then I downloaded
them. (Can't take that in reverse order :) I planned on using LZ to dearchive
them. So I was still on the VAX, when I stuckthe JR-Comm screen to the back,
and was fooling with ARP ARes. I gave the command:

1.Q105S:Music/Modules/SoundTracker> ARES C:LZ

Ok, so then I typed 'LZ'. Boom. Instant crash and burn. My main partition was
severely screwed. Had to use DiskDoctor (yick) on it, so when it came back, the
root block had to be reformated, and the C: and Sys:System directories were
gone, but the files were all in the root directory. Some of the files were
gone, too. The annoying thing is, I DIDN'T EVEN USE LZ TO WRITE TO THE DISK! I
can understand the crash and burn, but why did it trash my HD?

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