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- From: cemn@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Nielsen)
- Subject: Re: HD not validated
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.221843.18363@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
- Organization: James Cook University
- References: <43950@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1993Jan26.070647.6808@desire.wright.edu> <gre253-270193180624@152.83.8.10>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:18:43 GMT
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- In article <gre253-270193180624@152.83.8.10> gre253@its.csiro.au (Steve Green) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.070647.6808@desire.wright.edu>,
- >fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <43950@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, cg18fgg@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Greg) writes:
- >> > One of my hard drives has an error ("Block 150341 used twice") and will no
- >> > longer validate. How can I correct this?
- >>
- >> Have you tried the "DiskDoctor" program? I've used it several times
- >> and it has work perfectly. I'm curious as to why "DiskDoctor" was
- >> not included in WB 3.0. Anyone know?
- >
- >You've got to be kidding! I've never been able to get DiskDoctor to do
- >ANYTHING right! Every time I have run it it's made the problem worse!
-
- I have used disk doctor only to see the entire contents of the
- hard drive vanish as diskdoctor called them all faulty (there was only a
- single bad file).
-
- I have also never heard about diskdoctor actually working the
- way it should, If the hard drive is less than 45 megs I ALWAYS use
- fixdisk, which actually works!
-
- >
- >Anyway - it wouln't even touch my 425Mb HD ( which currently has a checksum
- >error :-( ) - it just says "not enough memory" and gives up.
- >
- >Maybe this is why it was dropped from WB 3.0! Maybe they FINALLY wrote a
- >disk fixer that works!!
-
- I some how doubt it!
- >
- >>
- >> >
- >> > Much thanks in advance,
- >> >
- >> > Greg
- >> >
- >> > gcallahan@ucsd.edu
- >> Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization **
- >
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- Mike
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