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From: hal@hpscdc.HP.COM (Hal Work)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Unvalidated hard disk
Message-ID: <7350010@hpscdc.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 13:55:27 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Div.
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Thanks for your input John.  I fixed the problem.  I do have a surge 
protector and a recent backup.  Here's what I tried to recover and how
they worked.

I looked through all my notes and decided that DiskSalv would be the 
best first shot.  My documentation was for version 1.3, but my software
was 1.2.  The docs said there were some bugs in 1.2, but I had nothing
to lose.  Sure enough, when I ran DS, I ran into the bug that was 
mentioned in the 1.3 docs.  I got the message that my second hard disk
partition was full when it wasn't.  I had to reboot to get out of the
program.  Now, my directory structure(?) seemed bad because Dspace should
that both disk partitions were empty.  But, everything worked as it did
pre-DS.

I was concerned about using DiskDoctor because the manual only mentions
floppy disks.  Once again, I decided, "whot the hey".  The last phase of
DD is that it asks if you want corrupt files in a directory purged.  Of
course I said yes.  What I ended up with after DD was a hard disk with
nothing but directories!

Now, I had no choice.  Reformat and restore.  Thanks Matt, Backup/Restore
saved my hide.