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- From: agm@bnr.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: HELP: Do you trust Disk First Aid 7.1?
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:58:44 GMT
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- Do you trust Disk First Aid 7.1?
-
- I have had a Frog 100e external 105Mb Rodime drive on my SE for around 10
- months and have been very pleased with it. I had a rather bad crash a few
- days ago that corrupted it, so I went through the following time-honoured
- ritual (because Disk First Aid couldn't repair it):
-
- 1. Attach the drive to a IIci at work with lots of free space on
- the internal drive.
-
- 2. Boot from the internal drive.
-
- 3. Copy all the stuff (except the System) from the Frog on to the
- internal drive.
-
- 4. Format the Frog using the Frog utility.
-
- 5. Copy all the stuff back using the Finder.
-
- 6. Rebuild the desktop on the Frog.
-
- I then checked the Frog using Disk First Aid 7.1. It found "invalid sibling"
- problems, so I repeated steps 4-6 again.
-
- I then ran Disk First Aid about 10 times. Around half the time it found no
- problems, the other times it found a variety of different problems (which I
- didn't allow it to fix).
-
- Norton Utilities cannot find anything wrong with the drive and it seems to
- work just fine.
-
- I called Frog technical support. They suspect a problem with Disk First Aid,
- but promise to replace the drive if it goes wrong in any way during normal
- use.
-
- Does anybody out there have a *clue* what might be going on? Could it be
- something funny to do with the driver?
-
- This kind of weirdness is enough to put me off buying another Mac!
-
- Thanks in advance, Andrew
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