Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!botter!ark!kleef From: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II Horrors, Continued Message-ID: <1057@ark.cs.vu.nl> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 19:11:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ark.1057 Posted: Tue Jul 14 19:11:36 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 03:08:23 EDT References:Reply-To: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 21 Summary: Get a newer version of DiskExpress!!! In article rs4u+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes: > > >After a bit of research, it seems that the only difference between >those who lost their drives and those who didn't is >that *those who got their drives nuked had used DiskExpress version 1.05 > Although I can't tell you what the thing is that makes DiskExpress 1.05 a killer, but it is that for a fact on the newer harddisks. After running DE 1.05 on my internal Mac SE drive, Disk Repair would report an error (but I never lost files, let alone an entire harddisk). Someone told me the problem lies in the fact that DE 1.05 doesn't update the 'second catalog' (or something like that, i'm not technical ;). Even though it doesn't help you right now, get a hold of a later version of DE. DE 1.06 has been out some time and friends of mine have received their 1.1 update. Version 1.06 I've run before, after which Disk Repair reported no errors. Because I don't think DE can cause _physical_ disk damage, you should try a low (I mean loooow) level formatter.