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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (phil nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help! my hard disk won't validate
Summary: Quarterback & DiskDoctor may not help, but they're all I know
Keywords: backup Quarterback compress
Message-ID: <119@antares.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 02:47:55 GMT
References: <3661@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (phil nelson)
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In article <3661@louie.udel.EDU> hoge%afsc02.decnet@hqafsc-vax.arpa (AFSC02::HOGE) writes:
>Help Me!!!
>
>I had a prcedure running last night that was writing to a file on my FFS hard
>disk partition when I had a guru (thank's multitasking!). We'll now I've got a
>bad file on the drive and it won't validate. Won't let me delete it (the file)
>or anything and "list" shows it as being empty. What do I need to do to
>straighten it out. HEEELLLLPPPPP!
>

Ok, my 2nd posting (I think) -note: mail re:netiquette issues welcome

Probably you will get better answers than mine, but here goes-

 I trashed my JH0: the other night, while running Compress -d on a file I
captured. Amiga gurued, when I rebooted, JH0: wouldn't validate. After I
wished that I had done my backups more often, it occured to my to try a
backup on the bad disk. I used Quarterback, (with a new backup set, NOT my
old backup disks) it backed up all 20meg, except for the garbled file,
which it skipped after complaining some. I then reformatted the disk and
restored. Thanks, Central Coast Software!

 Last night, I had more problems, (I ran out of disk space using Compress -d,
and she gurued after I deleted some files and then ran zoo on some more). This
time, the disk was validated but I had an empty file and suspected that some
of my disk space was in never-land. Since I had (this time) a backup, I tried
diskdoctor on JH0:. It did a better job than I expected, but not good enough
(I am going to restore from the backup tonight). I did notice that it
recovered some of the files that I had deleted. After --ALL-- else fails, you
might try DiskDoctor.

>Thanks,
>Scott Hoge
>TRW Inc.
>hoge@hqafsc-vax.arpa
>------

Philip Nelson

P.S. I have no association with the manufacturers of Quarterback, except as a
satisfied customer.

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