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Re: Recovery from dead HD? Thanks.

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From: Paul Hill
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:00
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Terrance Richard Boyes wrote Re: Recovery from dead HD?  Thanks.:
>Dave Beames <dave@beames.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Thanks, Tez & Dave Sparks, for the helpful replies.   (And anyone else
>> who may have answered since yesterday).

>> I'll join the two together.

>> Terrance Richard Boyes (tez@pierrot.co.uk) wrote:

>>> See if you can get one of the old disk-sector editors to work on the
>>> drive. At least with that you can tell if there's any data still in
>>> there.

>> If only.  I can't get NewZAP or the even older DiskX to work at all with

Ditch NewZap.  Try Zaphod instead.

>Yep, I had to ditch both of those when I put the '060 in :(

I still use DiskX on my '060.  I have a script that disbles CPU data
caches, runs DiskX and then enables them again.  Works reasonably well and
is even mode promotable to a CGFX screen.

-- 
Paul
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Subject: Re: Recovery from dead HD?  Thanks.
Date: 1999/05/21
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