Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!ucsd!ames!oliveb!tymix!antares!pnelson 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) Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA Lines: 46 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. {ames|pyramid}oliveb!tymix!antares!pnelson | Contains one or more of the OnTyme: QSATS.P/Nelson POTS: (408)922-7508 | following: Pleas for help, Free Disclaimer: Not officially representing | advice, Opinion, Misc. rambling. McDonnell Douglas Corporation policy. | * Use at your own risk *