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- From: rob@heffalump.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Hard Disk Troubles
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:49:41 GMT
- Organization: Direct Connection
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- I'm sure most people have had trouble with Hard Disks at one time or
- another, but I always seem to have *lots* of problems.
-
- What I really need, I know, is a decent backup system, but until I can
- afford it...
-
- Anyway, something went wrong, I can't remember what, and I tried to
- salvage loads of stuff with DiskSalv. That made it a *lot* worse,
- because just about everything then disappeared off the disk!
-
- I tried AmiFileSafe to see if that would help, but couldn't get the
- demo version to work at all, and have had *NO RESPONSE* from Fourth
- Level Development in the UK, so that went out the window.
-
- Then I though I'd try to find out if there was anything seriously
- wrong with the Disk. I found a program called DiskTest, which doesn't
- seem to do much, but claimed the disk was OK.
-
- I know that bad blocks should be marked as bad, but does the system
- automatically mark them? I know HDToolBox has an option to manually
- mark them, but I've no idea how to take the number that AmigaDos gives
- me for the sector and convert it into the information HDTB needs! I
- also know that formatting the disk is supposed to mark the bad blocks,
- but I don't want to do that at the moment! In any case, HDTB claimed
- there were currently no bad blocks marked!!!
-
- So, I then got hold of Holger Kruse's ReOrg, which did a wonderful job
- of one of my partitions, but on a slightly bigger one, wouldn't even
- start the optimisation, because it just says: "Error #2 I/0-Error
- reading sectors 73,017 - 73,079!"
-
- Has anyone got any ideas what this might mean??? (Holger?)
- Maybe I should just mark them as bad and leave them like it??
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-
- Robert Little
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