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- Hi,
-
- On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Chris "Big Kahuna" Rampson wrote:
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- > Erik S. Blank, BS Ind. Safety Science wrote:
- > > Anyone out there have any ideas short of trashing the drive? Are there any
- > > other programs that I could use instead of the HDToolbox that might have an
- > > automatic verify function? Any other ideas to help out? Thanks in advance!
- >
- > GVP uses FAAASTPREP software to format the drive. e-mail me, and I'll
- > help you out.
- >
- > --
-
- First off, HDToolBox is crap! Second, so is FaaastPREP. If you want a
- stable Hard Drive prep tool then get RDPrep off of AmiNet.
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- It can be found at...
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- rdp391.lha disk/misc 136K 52+HD partitioning utility from
- MicroBotics
-
- I'll explain why I don't like either one. HDToolBox said everything was
- find with my Conner and Maxtor drives, but I was still having problems.
-
- It wasn't until I used RDPrep that I found a 70K partition on the Maxtor
- that was called DH0:, which was kind of funny since the Conner was also
- called DH0:. HDToolBox never reported the extra partition, because it
- can't.
-
- As far as FaaastPREP is concerned, it killed the Maxtor drive (that's
- right, killed the drive) by crashing! It destroyed the factory information
- stored on the drive. This rendered the Hard Drive useless.
-
- AFAIK the only way to get the drive back is to have the drive formatted on
- a IBM, since there is no way that I know of on the Amiga. And indeed it
- did bring the drive back to life!
-
- Since then I have never used HDToolBox and FaaastPREP again.
-
-
- Michael (shotgun@slip.net)
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- Founding member of S.A.D. (Slipnet A Disappointment)
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