Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: MacZap's about as useful as a crashed hard disk Message-ID: <107@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 3 Jun 88 03:27:21 GMT Reply-To: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) Organization: Personal Computing Learning Resource Center, Purdue University Lines: 33 Just a few days ago, I was asked to recommend a disk fixer utility package. Not having experience with them myself and vaguely remembering I'd heard good things about MacZap, I mentioned it. Well, he ordered it from MacConnection (receiving, as is usual, absolutely excellent service from them) for $39. I borrowed the disk and manual to try it out on both a bad floppy and a hard disk (had the floppy a while, hard disk coincidentally crashed today). It's looking like my recommendation was a >>BIG<< MISTAKE. The documentation is absolutely horrid, and the MacZap utilities are not only incredibly un-user friendly, but they actually bomb right and left! After at least 3 hours of coercing the software, I had absolutely no success with the floppy and I was only able to salvage ONE file (a MacWrite file) off the hard disk. And I seriously think that the software saved that one file for me by accident! This is not the kind of behavior I'd expect from a product labeled "version 5.0"! I've given up. The hard disk backups are four days old, so I won't lose too many files. Now I wish that MacConnection had a money-back guarantee, so that I could recommend returning the entire MacZap package ... :-( The whole problem with the hard disk started, by the way, when a Lightspeed-C program crashed the system. Finder (booted from floppy) now wants to initialize the whole "damaged" hard disk. Any suggestions? Tell me quick, 'cause the hard disk's about to be re-initialized! Mac SE HD20 (crashed)/Sys 4.2/Find 6.0/MacZap Recover HFS & Recover 5.0 --- John O'Malley \ Personal Computing \ Purdue University \ (317) mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq \ Learning Resource Center \ Computing Center \ 494-9944