rod@venera.isi.edu (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) (06/09/90)
OK, my turn. This one pops up here once every couple of months, at least. I finally trashed my hard disk, it gets a validation error (key not set, or already set, or somesuch). I looked back through our c.s.a files, and we don't keep them far enough back to have an answer, and I couldn't find one on Xanth or in the newsgroup monthly into. Probably we should put a description of this in one place or the other. So, can somebody mail me a description of how to go about this? Is DiskSalv my only reasonable choice (I thought about asking Dave Haynie directly, but he's a busy guy)? If so, 1) I remember somebody saying you do disksalv from hd0: to df0:, right? Then how do you restore? 2) The builtin help (which is a little minimal) says something about formatting the drive before a restore. It won't trash the other partitions, will it? For that matter, what's the restore switch, R? 3) Can I change my partitions before restoring, as long as I don't make the destination smaller than my files to be restored? 4) Are there reasonable choices for dong this in place, without having to disksalv to floppies? If somebody gives me a reasonably complete description, I'll move it Zanth incoming/amiga, and/or mail to the guy who keeps the monthly intro. Thanks, and sorry to bring this up for the umpteenth time, --Rod