dsheythe@milton.u.washington.edu (Donald Sheythe) (02/24/91)
Amydos has corrupted yet another one of my disks.... :-( It always seems to clobber the disk structure when the disk gets too full. I'd run Disksalv on the disk, but whenever I stick it in the drive, the trackdisk crashes and a "disk corrupt - task held" requester comes up. I get an 8700000B guru when I select cancel. Help! What can I do to save my disk? -- Don Sheythe dsheythe@u.washington.edu
dsheythe@milton.u.washington.edu (Donald Sheythe) (02/24/91)
Hooray! I'm saved! FixDisk1.2 was able to load the corrupted disk w/o the dreaded crash. I had some trouble with FixDisk's validation process though, and the program hung. However, I was able to bypass the validation and just copied the files onto another disk. -- Don Sheythe dsheythe@u.washington.edu
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (02/27/91)
In article <17041@milton.u.washington.edu> dsheythe@milton.u.washington.edu (Donald Sheythe) writes: >I'd run Disksalv on the disk, but whenever I stick it in the drive, the >trackdisk crashes and a "disk corrupt - task held" requester comes up. Is it actually trackdisk crashing, or DOS? That's an imprortant distinction. DiskSalv normally shuts off DOS by the time its at the "Hit RETURN..." prompt (assuming you haven't specified the NODOS option). So if DOS is the one with the problem, you can fire up DiskSalv, THEN put the disk in. If it's actually trackdisk that's crashing, a much less likely case, there's not much you can do about it, since DiskSalv relies on trackdisk.device. >I get an 8700000B guru when I select cancel. Sez here that's a KEY OUT OF RANGE guru, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood DOS subsystem. So if you type your "DiskSalv df0: whatever:", wait for the prompt, put the disk in, and type RETURN, you should be on your way. Just don't restore to RAM:, since DOS will probably go for the disk after DiskSalv is done with it, once again bringing down a guru on your head. >Don Sheythe -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "What works for me might work for you" -Jimmy Buffett