TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (07/29/90)
Well gang, I replaced my dead Everex HD with a CMS 60M drive and booted up ProSel to restore everything. I had a harrowing hour or so trying to figure out how to deal with one bad block on the first backup disk (somehow it slipped through even though I had backed up using verify.) The trick was to copy the bad disk to a new one with CopyII+ and use the read/write sector mode to try to retrieve what it could out of the bad block and rewrite that one too. It turns out the block was in the middle of a font so no serious damage was made. (The font looks OK -- haven't done a bit-by-bit comparison.) After that was done (I had visions of restoring the whole thing file-by-file with selective restore) all went well. There did, however, seem to be one correctable problem: after restoring everything I ran volume repair to check on the directory structure. About two screens worth of files (1/10 maybe) had "bad file block count". I let it fix those and things seem OK. Anybody know if there is some kind of bug there? (This was version 7.1 of ProSel16 -- I also restored a week later's incremental made under V8.49 -- only a half dozen disks' worth -- and it came through perfectly, with no errors.) TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil