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- From: triona@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Kelly Madsen)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Do you trust Disk First Aid 7.1?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:48:43 GMT
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- In article <1jmh7kINNllu@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> agm@bnr.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter) writes:
- >Do you trust Disk First Aid 7.1?
- >
-
- In my experience with recovering toasty disks (floppies and HDs) I have
- discovered that Disk First Aid is sometimes the only thing that will
- recover data from a floppy -- but I have NEVER seen it give a correct scan
- on a hard drive.
-
- If you need to scan a hard drive, use Norton (first choice!) or SUM (if you
- don't have anything else). (Actually... I follow this rule for floppies
- too, just because I think these programs are far more reliable).
-
- Disk First Aid is great if you need a sector scan and/or need to pull off
- some text from a (floppy) disk that is almost completely trashed. The few
- times I tried it on a HD (before I learned better) I got a bizarre set of
- errors... and it never gives the same errors twice.
-
- $0.02 *ching*
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