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Dead HD ... Results

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From: Dave Beames
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:00
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Very many thanks to those who have advised.

AFAI can tell I've got *everything* back :-)))
I can even boot off the drive.

For information:  the RecoverRDB program which I mentioned the other day
actually gave me duff information -- its suggested partition start and
finish blocks were simply wrong.  Heigh ho.

Doug drew my attention to disk/salv/RDB-Salv.  It's big (over 200K) but
even in its crippled form it did the job.  It told me the names and sizes
of all my partitions (the full version would have given all the block
numbers too), and it was spot-on accurate.  Using a mount-list to be on
the safe side, it took me under an hour to resuscitate the whole thing.

The only annoying thing is that the Mount command doesn't seem to accept
DEVICE = 2nd.scsi.device, which is what the Catweazle board says the
drive is called.  So I had to keep swapping plugs around.

The commercial DiskSalv would presumably do the same job, but I couldn't
find anywhere to get it from.

So -- one *very* happy bunny :-)

Thanks again .... DaveB
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