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From: cks@radio.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Disk recovery/check programs
Message-ID: <580@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 23:22:19 EST
Article-I.D.: radio.580
Posted: Tue Nov 17 23:22:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 07:06:10 EST
Reply-To: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Newsreaders Anonymous
Lines: 22
Keywords: Sectorama, diskdoctor, disked
Summary: Oh, why can't someone write fsck?

[Take this line, oh line eater, and leave my hard drive alone.]

 There's got to be a better way of recovering crashed HDs than
DiskDoctor. I've had two fail on me now (both times I was writing to
the disk when the system guru'd), and each time DiskDoctor has barfed
royally and wound up moving around, deleting, and generally fouling up
about half the disk, all of which leaves me very mistrustful of either
DiskDoctor's accuracy or the normal state of my HDs.

 So ... *does* anyone have a better way of recovering HDs than
DiskDoctor, Sectorama, and disked? Alternatively, does anyone have a
program that checks a filing system for integrity and tells you what's
wrong without trying to fix it (so I could go in with disked and fix
stuff up)? Source is preferred, but binaries are OK.

[Mail me a copy of your reply; news is flaky out here. I'll summarize if 
 there is interest, of course]
-- 
	"Hey, that's why Dad moved to Colorado. He sits Zen now.  Me, I like 
	 the mountains."
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