murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (12/11/89)
In article <241@pallas.UUCP> wally@pallas.UUCP (Wally Hartshorn) writes: >In article <5517@nigel.udel.EDU> jms%tardis.tymnet.com@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >>C:DiskDoctor has to be invoked manually, and I'm not very impressed with >>its success rate. Release 1.4 could use improvements on this account. > >In my opinion, Commodore ought to just drop DiskDoctor entirely and start >shipping AmigaDOS with DiskSalv in its place. DiskDoctor doesn't even >come close to DiskSalv in terms of success at recovering files and the >directory structure. My experience has been that running DiskDoctor on >a munged disk is about as effective as running Format on it. :-( >-- >Wally (uunet!pallas!wally or wally@athenanet.com) > >"Student signature -- Stand clear." I recently purchased the Amigo Times v.1.9 with disk, and was quite pleased to find that Steve Tibbet had a program on the disk called DiskX. It seems to provide a reasonable way of editing disks at the byte level. Some day I will get aroung to using DiskSalv, I just haven't lost a floppy in quite a while. The last time I did, I used the wretched program DiskDoctor. I would also concur with Wally's idea that DiskDoctor be replaced by something. I know that this is comp.sys.amiga, but I have found the disk utilities provided with the Zenith PC's to be very useful on my PC, of course. They allow you to recover clusters associated with a file as well as lowlevel editing on the disk. Could something like this be provided in 1.4? Please refrain from telling me to look at Disk Salv etc. I plan to when I need/get the time to. -- Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu