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  1. Path: newshost.defcen.GOV.AU!news
  2. From: stewart@defcen.gov.au (Stewart Skelt)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Validation and Delete
  5. Date: 17 Feb 1996 06:52:22 GMT
  6. Organization: Defence Central - Canberra, Australia.
  7. Message-ID: <1129.6620T953T491@defcen.gov.au>
  8. References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960203013050.9886A-100000@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu><19960203.444DE0.C399@ao094.du.pipex.com> <oj6ka202q20.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
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  13. On 07-Feb-96 05:48:39 Steve Koren wrote:
  14.  
  15. >m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
  16.  
  17. >DiskSalv nominally "restored" the drive, but in the process hopelesslydamaged
  18. >the rest of the filesystem layout.  It completely deleted my C amaged the
  19. >rest of the filesystem layout.  It completely deleted my C directory, and
  20. >screwed up a *bunch* of other stuff not related to the problem file.  I ended
  21. >up just restoring from a backup.  (Luckily, you can still read a
  22. >non-validated partition, so making an up-to-the-minute backup isn't a
  23. >problem).
  24.  
  25. The only time I have had similar problems with DiskSalv, it turned out to be
  26. because I was using a disk caching commodity. When I removed that and tried
  27. again, DS successfully restored the partition. Sometimes when using the
  28. VALIDATE option it appears to work, but then I get the message "block xxxxx
  29. out of range". This is fixed by running validate twice.
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  33.         o|        Stewart Skelt        |o
  34. ----=====O   (stewart@defcen.gov.au)   O=====----
  35.   !     o|!Queanbeyan, NSW,  Australia |o
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