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- Path: sparky!uunet!bigmax!folsom
- From: folsom@bigmax.UUCP (Al Folsom)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: PCTOOLS and Disk Copy
- Keywords: PCTOOLS, diskcopy, whathappened?
- Message-ID: <583@bigmax.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:40:00 GMT
- Organization: Fischer & Porter Co., Warminster, PA.
- Lines: 44
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- Picture this: it's been a long day, and in my late night stupor,
- I still need to get ready to teach a course the next day. I pull
- the disk I used last semester, and bring up my brand new copy
- of PCTOOLs V8, to do a disk copy. Put the source disk in, get some
- pretty characters changing as the data is read. Put the target
- disk in, and immediately get a message about a CRC error.
-
- Stop, try formatting the disk, using both PCTOOLS and DOS format.
- No go, everything locks up. So I say to myself, "must be a bad
- disk, mumble, mumble, and get a new one. Same result. Had I been
- awake, I would have stopped here, but of course, I get another disk
- from a different package, and try again, and now have three,
- apparently permanently, destroyed HD disks. Finally it occurs to
- me to check my source disk, when I discover that it is fine, but it
- IS a DD disk. Apparently, PCTOOLS happily tried to copy a DD to a
- HD with no warning message, and destroyed the HD in the process.
-
- I'm willing to accept the cost of three floppies as payment for my
- stupidity, but I do have a few questions you all might be able to
- help with:
-
- 1) What exactly happened?
-
- 2) Isn't this somewhat user-hostile behavior for an expensive tool
- supposed to make my life easier?
-
- 3) Is there a way to recover these disks? None of the tools I have,
- including diskfix, etc, would touch them.
-
- 4) Why do I always wait till the last minute to do this stuff?
-
- Peace,
-
- Al F.
-
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