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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Application questions and support => Topic started by: Malakie on December 12, 2021, 09:06:35 PM
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Hi all,
Want to play with OS 3.2 diskdoctor on some old disks I am going through. Does anyone know how to actually use the syntax for it? Everything I try gives me the line "no actual data will be changed". What is the actual command to get it TO change the data, i.e. do a repair or recovery?
And before someone says, use Disksalv4 or some other tool, I want to use diskdoctor for my own reasons on this project so if anyone has the proper syntax/command format, it would help. I know that '?' shows the commands but none of them I have tried change anything.. the thing just reads the media, shows the errors but never fixes them.
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Type "help diskdoctor" in a shell for the documentation - it's quite thorough.
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Type "help diskdoctor" in a shell for the documentation - it's quite thorough.
Did that. I see no command to actually repair. Gives me a long list of commands but nothing that looks like repair or validate a drive.
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Afaik it doesn't repair a disk - copies repaired file structure to another destination. Those in-disk repair programs tend to be risky.
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Yeah, like I wrote elsewhere, it’s a rather silly and misleading name for a program that can only be used for rescuing files from a thrashed fastfilesystem. It’s a bit like naming an offshore rescue helicopter "The Shipyard".
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Afaik it doesn't repair a disk - copies repaired file structure to another destination. Those in-disk repair programs tend to be risky.
ahh no wonder.. ok thanks.. Well it is pointless to do that then being this is a clean OS3.2 install. And I still need to find the damn cause of this problem first...