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- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: DiskSalv
- Message-ID: <DMEsJo.Dnu@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator)
- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:06:59 GMT
- 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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- In article <oj6ka202q20.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>,
- Steve Koren <koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> wrote:
- >
- > 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).
-
- I have had the same thing happen to me, but it was with an older version
- of DiskSalv, the latest version doesn't have the same side effects, so it
- seems that bug has been fixed.
-
- > 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.
-
- When you're only backup option os floppy disk, using DiskSalv is alot
- quicker. And since I have not had the same problem occur while usign
- DiskSalv 3, it should be OK to register it now (if you still want to).
-
- > 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.
-
- It has only happened to me when the partition is almost completely full
- (assuming there isn't an underlying problem with the drive).
-
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