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- From: michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane)
- Subject: Re: When it comes to the crunch, HD Utils don't cut it
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 09:16:45 GMT
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- tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes:
- [hd utilities don't cut it after something goes wrong]
-
- >They'll recover an occasional lost file or fix errors
- >that you've never noticed, but when something serious
- >happens, you might as well use SCSI probe as Norton's.
-
- >Any comments?
-
- i agree that once something serious happens, not much will help out.
- my solution to this is to use good software to format and drive my
- hard disk. i had all sorts of trouble with silverlining and switched
- to fwb's hard disk toolkit. no problems at all after that; works great
- under a fair amount of duress...
-
- --mike
-