jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Jim Meiss) (05/07/87)
There was a message on INFO-MAC Digest 29 Apr 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 83 about recovering crashed disks which said: >people report that when they try to recover from a crash, >they get a message: > > 0 FILES in 0 FOLDERS found > >and every time the reason is that they had executed either MACTOOLS or FEDIT+ >and > MOUNTed !!!! > the disk. > >***** DO NOT DO THIS ****** IT DESTROYS VALUABLE DATA NEEDED FOR RECOVERY **** > Can someone explain the correct procedure to use? I've tried to recover an HFS disk with MacTools 6.3 several times without success. It seems to me that there are not many options, aside from "mounting" the disk... Which is the best program to use to recover HFS disks? I'm pretty upset with the quality of MacTools. It seems to crash often and fail most of the time. Any Thoughts? Jim Meiss jdm@ut-ngp.utexas.eduv
robertj@yale.UUCP (Rob Jellinghaus) (05/07/87)
In article <5153@ut-ngp.UUCP> jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: >I've tried to recover an HFS disk with MacTools 6.3 several times without >success. It seems to me that there are not many options, aside from "mounting" >the disk... > >Which is the best program to use to recover HFS disks? I'm pretty upset with >the quality of MacTools. It seems to crash often and fail most of the time. > >Any Thoughts? There are several utilities that are far more useful than MacTools for disk repair. Here is a partial list: Disk First Aid, from Apple Very effective at repairing certain kinds of disk problems automatically. Free from any public domain source. MacZap, from some company (sorry I don't know the name) This utility has been getting raves on the net recently. It apparently works on both hard disks and regular floppies. Fairly easy to use. Fedit Plus, again from a company whose name I don't know This is very powerful if you're willing to take time to learn about the details of Macintosh disk formats. It's not as automated as MacZap or Disk First Aid, but some people think it's the best repair utility available. These are some of the most popular ones around. All of them should be available from any Mac mail-order company, and all of them are probably worth the less than $100 you'd pay for them. (Except Disk First Aid, which is free.) Good luck! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Jellinghaus |"We're on a road to nowhere... That's my name, don't wear it out.| Yaaahh!" -- THeads --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jellinghaus@yale-celed.UUCP **or** ..something..!yale!jellinghaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer (dis-klay'-mer) n. A statement disclaiming something. Disclaimer disclaimer: Definition taken from the _Oxford American Dictionary_, Oxford University Press, New York, 1980. Disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer: No, I am NOT paranoid. Why do you ask?? Maybe I could use another disclaimer!!!!! (P.S. I am NOT associated with any of the companies that produce the software I mentioned above. I apologize for not having the company information as I wrote this posting.)