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- From: ad010@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Wilhelm Stiefelhagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! validating HD
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:56:37 +0100
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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- In <1go1grINN88t@gambier.rick.cs.ubc.ca> c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
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- >aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites) says:
- >> also avoid clearing off starting over with a new format. (as least not as
- >> often.) If there is a program which will politely handle marking blocks as
- >> unreadable, or kill the file without messing around with the disk too much,
- >> I'd like to hear of it.
-
- ...
-
- There is a program called detach on Fish773, which kills the file if
- you still know the name of it. (That is the normal way I think: You
- know what you were doing when crashing the system). Otherwise
- fixdisk (on some erlier Fishes) can repair/validate disks up to
- 49 MByte (Hello Guenther, did you extend this limit?).
-
- Willi
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