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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: SS: How can I recover a damaged device disk???
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:56:44 GMT
- Organization: UT Applied Research Laboratories
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- Kim F Ong (kimmie@overman.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : Jerry Heyman wrote:
- : >
- : > Peter Sterk (sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk) wrote:
- : >
- : > : Does anyone know of a public domain harddisk repair utility.
- : > : My amiga crashed and one of the two device disks I have is
- : > : damaged. The Mac OS suggests to initialize it, but I'd rather
- : > : try and recover the disk. What about commercial packages, like
- : > : Norton utilities, can they be used with device disks? Help appreciated.
- : >
- : > Try DiskSalv by Dave Haynie. It should be found on Aminet ...
- : >
- : > It's saved my bacon on more than one occassion...
- : >
- : > : Peter
- : >
- : > jerry
-
- : You must be joking? DiskSalve on a damaged device disk?
- : This is MacOS filesystem, not FFS or OFS...
- : Get Norton Utilties or MacTools
-
- Mea culpa - didn't read through the message. DiskSalv DEFINITELY won't
- work on device disk.
-
- : kifo
-
- jerry
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