Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!mips2!thed.uk22.bull.com!kelvin From: kelvin@thed.uk22.bull.com (Kelvin Hill) Subject: Re: TAR & Disk Corruption. Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc. Date: 20 Jun 91 10:27:31 GMT Message-ID: References: <1377@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Keywords: Aaaarrrggghhhh!! Sender: news@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Usenet News Manager) In <1377@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks) writes: >How do you recover broken directories? By copying everything you can off the damaged disk. Formatting it using hform. Copying everything you saved back to the now clean disk and finally delving through 100's of diskettes to find your last backup or original of the broken directory. :-( Kelvin. -- Kelvin J. Hill - BULL HN Information System Ltd, Hounslow, England, UK. Internet - kelvin@thed.uk22.bull.com | UUCP - kelvin@cix.compulink.co.uk "" kelvin@kelvin.uk22.bull.com | AMPRnet - kelvin@g1emm.ampr.org