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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Disk validating in 2.0 ??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.073316.10143@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:33:16 GMT
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- cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- > fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- >>jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy M. Pierce) writes:
- >
- >but again, anything can happen during a disk crash.
-
- Actually I'm not the one who posted the original problem.
-
- >>>My boss has told me that the only real way to fix an ms-dos disk is to use
- >>>Norton, or similar utilities. Myself, I use QBTools to fix my Amiga floppies.
- >
- >>Your boss has succumbed to the same media hype that makes Amiga people
- >>spit out the automatic phrase, "You gotta use QB Tools; it's the way it
-
- <Chuckle> This is funny. My boss and I both have Bach. Sci degrees
- in computer programming. We get to try and restore hard drives that some
- professor scrambled. I ignore media hype. So does my boss.
-
- >>was Meant To Be." CHKDSK fixes nearly all problems on MS-DOS. I am
- >>surprised that Commodore has not written a simple HD-fixing tool that
- >>will do the same thing for AmigaDOS volumes.
- >
- >It's far from trivial to write a full featured disk recover program. I've been
- >working on it on and off for nearly seven years. Once you decide to do anything
-
- Yes, DiskSalv is an excellent program ! Thanks ! Its let me restore
- data on one of my floppies more than once.
-
- >more with a bad block than simply remove it from your directory tree, you're
- >talking about lots of clever code. There is a reason ole Peter Norton built
- >a business out of doing basically this thing for you. If you haven't run across
- >a problem CHKDSK doesn't fix, you're just plain lucky. Though I do agree that
- >the Amiga should have at least a basic fix-up program included with the OS
- >release. One that you can't trust is worse than none at all (the decision they
- >made for 2.1).
-
- Yup, we use Norton on our ms-dog gear. Oops, I should mention he
- loves ms-dos, and I don't...
-
- >>That's my point: MS-DOS does NOT required anything at all; Norton has a
- >>prettier interface and explains things better about what's going on, but
- >>it is not NEEDED. It is just nice to have.
- >
- >You may need Norton for some operations. You don't for the trivial stuff.
- >
-
- True. Sometimes a copy to another filename, delete the old, then copy
- back to old from the 'another filename' works for trivial stuff.
- This never works for a severe problem. DJ.
-
- --
- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM
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