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From: coffee@aero.ARPA (Peter C. Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Did Disk First Aid Fail?
Message-ID: <11260@aero.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 15:31:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 15:31:14 1987
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In article <993@ark.cs.vu.nl> kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) writes:
>The wonderful 'Disk First Aid' that came with my Mac SE reports an 
>'unable to verify status' on my internal harddisk.
:
>- System 4.0, Finder 5.4
>- DFA run from hard(=system)disk

When I have used DFA, it has reminded me that it can only fix things if the
disk being FA'd is _not_ the current startup disk. I double-click on the
finder of my "First Aid" floppy, then run DFA from it. When you ran your
friend's utility, did you perhaps run it from a floppy rather than from
your hard disk? Hope this helps...DFA doesn't say much, but it sure seems
to work (it recovered 892K from a huge file that Edit 2.0 trashed. Useful).