Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!mcnc!wolves!deepthot!Jay From: Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Hard drive recovery Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 06:27:28 GMT References: <2614.27e5cb62@incstar.uucp> Organization: The Software Distillery Lines: 40 In article <2614.27e5cb62@incstar.uucp> lhotka@incstar.uucp writes: > >I used DiskSalv with the 'NODOS' option to recover all the information onto >DH1:, so I have all the data that was on the drive, but my problem is that >I can't get DH0: back... The Amiga FORMAT command accesses DH0: and 3-5 >seconds later - GURU DiskDoctor, FixDisk and DiskSalv (w/o the 'NODOS' >option) do the same thing, so unless they have switches I am missing they >won't help me... I can think of a couple of ways: 1) Corrupt the first sector of the disk. If ADOS doesn't see DOS\0 or DOS\1 in the first four bytes, it won't look at the rest of the disk. It'll just say NDOS. 2) Write a quick and dirty program to send an inhibit packet to the filesystem. Mount and then send this message before the system has a chance to crash. 3) Rename the disk validator so it can't run. > >Is there a way to solve this without doing a low level format of the entire >drive? Thanks for any help!! > ______________________________________________________________________ >/ Rockford Lhotka INCSTAR Corp \ >| Applications Project Leader 1990 Industrial Blvd | >| incstar!lhotka@uunet.uu.net PO Box 285 | >\ 612/779-1701 Stillwater, MN 55082 / > -------------Amiga - The computer for the creative mind.-------------- -- |_o_o|\\ |. o.| || The Jay Denebeim | . | || Software | o | || Distillery | |// Address: UUCP: mcnc.org!deepthot.uucp!jay ====== Internet: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us BBS:(919)-460-7430 VOICE:(919)-460-6934