Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!hpchang
From: hpchang@rose.waterloo.edu (Hsi P. Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HD Recovery, DiskSalv and DiskDoctor
Keywords: Hard Drive, HD, DiskSalv, DiskDoctor, CRASH
Message-ID: <11895@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 89 05:09:33 GMT
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I have a problem and I need help....

	I have a 40 Meg Hard Drive, with two FFS partitions of 20 Meg
per shot. One of them recently died on me (I don't really know why), but
it seems that the crash was not extensive. Mount refuses to install the
drive, claiming it is not a DOS disk. I ran both DiskDoctor and DiskSalv
on that partition. DiskDoctor seems to listed/recoverd all the files
correctly, but mount still refuses to mount the drive (ie. I can't
copy the files over). I then tried DiskSalv (v1.3), which proceeded to list
them filenames as it scans the sectors, but always causes a software
failure at cerntain point (ie. Gurus like crazy).

	So this is what I think. The files on that partition are recoverable,
if I can just get 'mount' to install the drive correctly. But I need help
in making that Partition a "dos" disk. Any offers ???

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