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- From: IO20706@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Help.....disk error
- Message-ID: <92315.110810IO20706@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:08:10 GMT
- Organization: University of Maine System
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- Hello everyone,
- I have a problem, and since you are the ultimate
- computer stud, maybe you'll be able to help me. Yesterday when I was
- writing my English homework (on MS-Word for Windows at a computer cluster)
- MS-word detect a "serious disk error" when I tried to save the document.
- Anyway, so I delete that particular file and re-save the document again.
- It is after I came home that I discovered that the print out (I print
- out the homework at the computer cluster) has a good part missing (there
- are about six lines missing in one of the paragraph). And the missing
- words are filled with "*" 's. Since that homework is due the next day,
- I turn on the 286 at home to try to fix it with Windows Write. However,
- Write refused to read that part of the document - it stucked there with
- a message of "unreadable data error" of something I can't remember.
- The second time I tried it worked because the what was "unreadable" are
- now fill by the characters of "X" 's. I was really upset by this. So
- I started to play with my disket and I found out by the reflection of
- the light that there seems to be a scratch on the disk (not the outside
- , but the inside magnetic storage plate). I thought maybe this is the
- problem. Anyway, I remember that we had PCTOOLS. So I call my uncle
- to help me deal with this weird disk. He set down and backup the file
- that I am currently working on (the English essay) hard drive. Then he
- start to use PCTOOLS's diskfix utilities to try to tackle the problem.
- He tried COMPRESS first (I think, but I can be wrong, it can be disk-
- repair or some other trick I can remember exactly). It worked, but
- afterward we tried to read from the disk, it turn out to be another
- unreadable data - but it's worst this time. The computer simply didn't
- recognize that there is a floppy disk in the floppy drive and gave me a
- message of "Abort, Retry, or Fail". I noticed that there is a command
- in pctools that says undo repair, but before I can even yell out, my
- uncle had done the "three-keys solute" (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) and reboot the
- machine. Apparently, the undo data was lost and I was doomed to never
- to have my data back (there're some 15 more files left un-backup). So
- we tried another method in PCTOOLS's diskfix. It's call Revitalize
- Disk. It is the only thing left that recognize that there's a floppy
- disk in the floppy drive. It took a solid 5 minutes of repeating
- "reading....formatting....writing...reading....formatting....writing".
- After it's finally done, I check the floppy, it's still the same!!!
- It's over. I then tried the DOS methods like unformat, undelete,
- recover, restore, and any other way I can think of, but there's no hope.
- By the way, when I used DOSSHELL to quickformat it, it shows a message
- saying:
- "DISK ERROR - BAD CRC
- 1. TRY THIS PROCEDURE AGAIN,
- 2. DON'T TRY THIS AGAIN. "
- What is a CRC ? I looked over all the dos help I can, including the one
- in the computer, but there's no such word in any of the existing help
- files. I want to format it, but this will permenantly destroy the data
- I had on the floppy. I know those data are still on there, trust me,
- so I can't bring myself to format it. Now I'm thinking Norton Disk
- Utilities. Would that be any help? I am out of tricks and methods.
- Help me, please, please, please, please, please, please, please......
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- Thanks.
-
- David Shih
- IO20706@maine.maine.edu
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