johnv@tower.actrix.co.nz (John Veldthuis) (08/24/90)
Quoted from - a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs): > RE: fixing a trashed Hard Disk > writes: > > Another option is FixDisk, by Werner Gunther. This one has > saved my bacon several times. It can repair hard disk partitions > up to 48 megabytes in place, much like DiskDoctor, but it doesn't > make things worse, unlike DiskDoctor. Recommended. > > Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP > [If the line eater were to move, where wou Where can I get this? I have version 1.0 which came off a Fish Disk but it only shows up one of my partitions which is 1.5 megs. It has ghosted the rest which are from 9 to 16 megs. I have 5 megs of memory on a A2500/20. Is there an update to this program or do I need more memory. -- *** John Veldthuis, NZAmigaUG. johnv@tower.actrix.co.nz ***
schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur) (08/26/90)
In article <2725.tnews@tower.actrix.co.nz> johnv@tower.actrix.co.nz (John Veldthuis) writes: >Quoted from - a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs): >> RE: fixing a trashed Hard Disk >> writes: >> >> Another option is FixDisk, by Werner Gunther. This one has >> saved my bacon several times. It can repair hard disk partitions >> up to 48 megabytes in place, much like DiskDoctor, but it doesn't >> make things worse, unlike DiskDoctor. Recommended. >> >> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP >> [If the line eater were to move, where wou > >Where can I get this? >I have version 1.0 which came off a Fish Disk but it only shows up one of >my partitions which is 1.5 megs. It has ghosted the rest which are from 9 >to 16 megs. I have 5 megs of memory on a A2500/20. >Is there an update to this program or do I need more memory. > Neither. The program is "officially" set up to work for floppies. The author didn't want to take responsibility for you screwing up your hard drive, so he put in a safety feature. If you want to work on a partition that is larger than 5 MB you have to start the program from the CLI and type "fixdisk doom". The "doom" qualifier allows you to work on partitions up to (I think) 40MB. Read your docs, it explains this. Personally I love this program. It is the only thing I know of that can validate hard drives, root out bad sectors, and undeleted large quantities of files simply. ============================================================================== \ / \ \ / / Sean Schur \ \ / / \ \/ / USENET: schur@isi.edu \ /a\mpyr/ Compuserve: 70731,1102 \/ \ / ideo Plink: OSS259 \/ ==============================================================================
jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) (11/21/90)
caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: > (Peter Wemm) writes: > > > I have had very favorable experiences with fixdisk with in-situ recoveries. > > But it is a little bit slow .. :-) It was only designed for up to about > > a meg or so. I was even able to recover the mess that diskdoctor made! > > Note that this was a repair, not salvage.. The drive was completely stable > > for about a week before I did a complete backup/format/restore. > > Me too. For some reason the directory block of my hardisk gets cleared > sometimes. I don't know why. Fixdisk just re-creates the root-directory. > I then go on as normal. Before fixdisk I had to try to salv my whole HD > (Which wouldn't work on the old disksalv) (and)or start from scratch. > > > Peter Wemm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > wemmp@cutmcvax.oz.au (wemmp@cutmcvax.oz or ..!munnari!cutmcvax.oz.au!wemmp) > > "VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix." - w.davidson > > Malcolm Caldwell CALDWELL_M@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU > Darwin Australia FIDO: 3:690/648.3 > I've been hearing lots of good things about FixDisk. Anyone know if a version is planned that will work on large hard drive partitions? --- Cal ____ HOBBIT / / / 340 Meg Online HOLE / / / 12/24/9600HST bps AMIGA: ____ / / / Exclusively Amiga \ \ \/ / / "Best Amiga BBS in FL" The computer for the BEST of us! \ \ \/ / July, 1989 Final List(tm) \_\_\/ A comfortable place to meet -------------------------------------- Cal Jones, Sysop. 904-243-6219 24Hrs