| From: | ntracey |
| Date: | 15 Jun 2001 at 08:26:10 |
| Subject: | Re: endlessly validating disk issue |
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:15:01 -0000 you talked about...
>
>> 3) after retrieving the files I needed, I just completely reformatted the
partition and rebuilt the stuff on there,
>>
>> Finally, most importantly, I learned the hard way, DO A BACKUP! :) If I
had had a backup, I could have just reformatted and just dumped the backup
on the partition and would have been good to go. As I work partially in
Tech Support, this meant only my own hypocrisy came home to roost (one of
time-honored ways to get off the phone in TS, usually after enduring a
verbal barrage, is when a customer loses all their files or many of them
and has no backup, you have to empathize but that's usually 'it' for >their
situation).
>>
>> Thankfully the Amiga gives us a lot of little tricks like this to avoid
disaster like that. I'm sure that at least some of those tricks exist on
the PC but I'm glad I never had to use them. :)
>
>As a footnote to all this, get yourself PFS3. I had heaps of trouble
>with FFS but since I have had PFS3 all HD validation troubles are a
>thing of the past.
>
Why get PFS3 $$ when you can use SFS for nothing it basic does the same
thing and I had the same problem and they just update it and haven't use
the update yet
had good result with ver 1.84
Neil Tracey
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