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- From: macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com (Alan MacAnespie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: HD validation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.141905.1@waves.pas.ti.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:19:05 GMT
- References: <20099@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: usenet@csc.ti.com
- Reply-To: macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com
- Organization: Texas Instruments, PAS
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- In article <20099@mindlink.bc.ca>, Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.174452.1@waves.pas.ti.com> macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com (Alan MacAnespie) writes:
- >>2. Use Quarterback Tools. I don't know of any PD/Shareware programs that
- >>can fix this kind of problem, but QBTools works just great.
-
- > I have a copy of FixDisk, by Werner Gunther. This is a freely-
- >distributable program that will fix up corrupted disks in place.
- >The version I have is 1.2. I don't know whether there's a newer
- >one - this one is a couple of years old - but it's saved my bacon
- >several times. One limitation is that it can only handle hard disk
- >partitions up to 48 megabytes in size, but my partitions are smaller
- >than that anyway.
-
- That's the reason I don't use it. I remember running FixDisk, and having
- it complain that my 80Meg partition was too big, so I never used Fixdisk.
- Funny, I keep thinking that my 80Meg partition is too small. :-)
-
- > FixDisk and DiskSalv are two utilities that I wouldn't do
- >without. If there's any way to recover data from a munged disk,
- >one or the other should be able to do it.
-
- I would say the same thing about QBTools and DiskSalv. However, I don't
- know if QBTools will handle 3.0 with Directory Caching or not.
-
-
- >Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
- >I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
-
- I not really indecisive, but I play one on TV.
-
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- Alan MacAnespie, || * Standard Disclaimers Apply Upstairs.*
- Texas Instruments, PAS || Is a person who writes many different
- macanespie@waves.pas.ti.com || applications a Renaissance Computist?
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- How many bits would a BlitBlit blit if a BlitBlit could blit bits?
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