home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: fc.hp.com!news
- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Validation and Delete
- Date: 06 Feb 1996 12:48:39 -0700
- Organization: HP Fort Collins Site
- Sender: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com
- Message-ID: <oj6ka202q20.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
- References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960203013050.9886A-100000@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu>
- <19960203.444DE0.C399@ao094.du.pipex.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsrk.fc.hp.com
- In-reply-to: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com's message of Sat, 3 Feb 96 13:50:05
- X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9
-
-
- m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
-
- > Use DiskSalv:
- > DiskSalv11_32.lha disk/salv 118K 29+Dave Haynie's DiskSalv version 11.32
-
- I tried this once, some time ago, on a partition with minimal damage (my
- system rebooted during a file write, so I think the damage must have
- been localized to that one file & dir). And indeed DiskSalv reported
- only one error, as I expected.
-
- DiskSalv nominally "restored" the drive, but in the process hopelessly
- damaged the rest of the filesystem layout. It completely deleted my C
- directory, and screwed up a *bunch* of other stuff not related to the
- problem file. I ended up just restoring from a backup. (Luckily, you
- can still read a non-validated partition, so making an up-to-the-minute
- backup isn't a problem).
-
- If it had worked OK, I would have registered it, but I couldn't really
- justify it since my drive was worse off after I ran it. Since, whenever
- I have a non-validatable partition I just restore it from a backup,
- which is actually much faster for me than running DiskSalv anyway.
-
- Anybody understand under what conditions a partition is non-validatable?
- When I have a crash during a file write, sometimes the partition
- validates OK, and sometimes it does not. I've never seen much of a
- pattern in when it does and when it doesn't.
-
- - steve
-