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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FillDisk
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:44:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:44:10 1987
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I have started something new in the way of Hard Disk management.

For those who fear using Disk Doctor on their hard disk, take a look
at Fill Disk by FNF on one of the Fish Disks.  It writes a file to
the disk until the disk is full.  This means that Disk Doctor will
no longer recover bits and pieces of deleted files.  I had a directory
loop in my Commodities directory the other day.  I ran Fill Disk until
all free blocks were filled.  I deleted the file it created, made a 
new file of the same name so that will wouldn't return, and then I
ran disk doctor.  15 minutes later... I had a working hard disk...
or more to the point, I had a validating hard disk, and when that was
done (20 minutes later), Then I had a working hard disk.  Just a 
word of advice. Maybe I should send it in and get my AmigaWorld Tee Shirt.
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