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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Norton SD program problem
Summary: SD considered dangerous
Message-ID: <1062@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 18:40:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: acornrc.1062
References: <12440034836014@KL.SRI.COM> <11@gsy1.UUCP>
Organization: Olivetti Software Technology Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
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This past Friday evening, Norton Speed Disk completely trashed my
Seagate ST-238R 30MB disk.

It was merrily compacting along, when it suddenly beeped, said "error
writing to FAT", and left me with absolutely no way to recover; all you
can do at that point is hit any key to give up.

Well, my FAT was demolished.  I tried reconstructing it with NU's FAT
editor, but to no avail.  FR and CHKDSK/F (the last resort) didn't help
either.

Unfortunately, my last backup was made at the end of August.  I had to
restore from that backup and manually reconstruct everything newer than
that, with the exception of a few directories which,luckily, seemed
unaffected.

Moral: perform a backup before running SD.

-- 
Bob Weissman
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