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From: ANK@CUNYVMS1.BITNET.UUCP
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Subject: Running BAD on DISK
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 00:12:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 00:12:00 1987
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There comes a time when all of us are forced to use old disks, or
disks that have something that one does'nt need.
 
        So, we had an unfortunate crash, and a new DRA0: or
SYS$SYSTEM disk had to be made from a backup.
 
        Our strategy has been to backup DRA0: every time we upgrade
a VERSION.Due to disk-shortage we used an old DISK having an old
version of UNIX System V. Well there seem to be no BADBLK.SYS .
Copying from old disks do not seem to work either.
 
        It has been suggested that it comes with the disks.
Is it true that we cannot salvage a disk containing Unix even after
we delete all files and initialize it ? Or is there a documenatation
in the VAX/VMS reports that we missed ???
 
                                Thanks
                                                Anil Khullar
 
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