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- What should have been in the .LZH file:
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- DISKFIX2.PRG The disk fixer.
- DISKFIX2.MAN This file.
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- What this is:
-
- Let's say you're working on your computer, in the wee hours of the morning.
- All of a sudden, you get this alert box on your screen, saying "Data on the
- disk in drive A: may be damaged." Or maybe you go to save your program and
- the fileselector pops up full of garbage. Your heart will likely skip a
- beat or two. Your eyes will jump from the screen to the disk drive and back
- again. How could this, your trusted computer, let you down in your hour of
- need?
-
- Okay, first of all, don't panic. You're probably going to lose some of that
- stuff on the disk. But this program will help you recover quite a bit from
- that damaged disk--maybe even everything. Just pray that this program isn't
- on the disk that gets damaged.
-
- To use the program, run it from any resolution. Dispense with the title
- information; you already knew who wrote the program (me) and you're more
- interested in saving your disk. Choose the drive with the damaged disk,
- and the drive to store the new files on. (If you only have one floppy
- drive, it is vital that you specify A and B as your two drives!) Put
- the damaged disk into the drive you've just selected for it to be in. The
- format of the damaged disk will be displayed; if you get some bizarre
- numbers for the format (a standard format is 80 or 82 tracks, 9 or 10
- sectors per track, and 1 or 2 sides) then forget it, the boot sector is
- fried. Select "Cancel" from the alert box, thus exiting the program, and
- pray for a miracle. If the format looks okay, select "Proceed" and the
- program will begin working. Since the directory may be screwed up, the
- files are listed on the new disk by number. It is up to you to figure out
- what's what; files will have their lengths rounded off to 1024-byte amounts.
- But at least you'll have the data.
-
- If you do only have a single drive, I really would recommend using a RAM
- disk... otherwise you'll be swapping disks all day. There is a new version
- on the way.
-
- If you have a fried hard drive, this program should work. I have only
- tested this program on an intact hard drive, so I cannot vouch for its
- performance with a truly messed up drive. I was not about to toast my
- hard drive just to see if my program would recover it. I should warn you,
- though, that it will definitely NOT work if the hard drive is formatted to
- more than 16 Meg (as in with TOS 1.4). Sorry. That too will be fixed in
- a future (and soon forthcoming) version.
-
- I wrote this program because I desperately needed it. It saved my butt--
- with any luck it might just save yours.
-
- -dmj
-
- Other programs I've written, which you ought to have:
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- DOUBLER - turnes single sided disks into double sided disks, without
- damaging anything on the disk.
- PURGER - quickly erases entire disks. Very handy.
- REPLAY22 - Fantastic digitized sound player and converter.
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