rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) (11/14/90)
How does Disk First Aid behave when confronted with a disk maintained by the Desktop Manager? If it won't work, what will? I just noticed a damaged icon (it happened to be Disk First Aid) and tried to check the disk with Disk First Aid. The outcome was "can't read disk". Disinfectant and Silverlining found all to be well. I finally rebuilt the desktop file (which I understood to be elimintated by the DTM) and the icon came back to normal. However, DFA still can't read the disk. It can read the startup volume on the drive just fine. Everything seems to work normally. Any ideas? bob
fwb@pollux.siemens.com (Fred Brehm) (11/14/90)
Robert Prohaska asks: >How does Disk First Aid behave when confronted with a disk maintained >by the Desktop Manager? If it won't work, what will? I just ran DFA on my IIcx with Desktop Manager running. There was no Desktop file present (I checked with DiskTop). It ran just fine. Perhaps you should try a fresh copy of DFA from an installation disk. Maybe something strange is wrong with your disk. Have you tried removing Desktop Manager from the System Folder, rebooting, and running DFA again? Fred -- Frederic W. Brehm Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, NJ fwb@demon.siemens.com -or- ...!princeton!siemens!demon!fwb