My data is all gone

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I don't think I could live without DiskSalv... that's why I still use FFS over SFS.

I don't know why Angela Schmidt hasn't made RDB-Salv freeware now, it's not nice to keep this program restricted - it could save someone's life. She must have made enough money with MakeCD anyway!

I'm crossing my fingers for your idea motorollin!

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When it comes to backing up your hard disk I often hear of Emergency Boot diskettes, CD-ROMs, ZiP/Jazz disks but there's one thing I never hear mentioned...

Next time you're in the Early Startup Menu have a look for CC0: - a nice 2MB PCMCIA SRAM card would boot silently, instantly and would hold far more data for recovery purposes than an 880k floppy. You could put DiskSalv, SFS-salv, DOpus, AmiCDFS, RDB-Salv and whatever else on it.

Remember that CC0: has boot priority 3 - higher than floppy and hard disk and of course, unlike ZiP or CD-ROM the driver is permanently in ROM (which is thankfully write protected!).

:-)

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Oh yeah, you're right.

Well if DF0: has boot priority 5, and it's advised that DH0: be boot priority 4 - then CC0: on priority 3 will allow you to leave the SRAM card permanently in the PCMCIA slot without fear of booting off it.

Should your hard disk die it will be there like Superman to haul your ass out of trouble.

:-)

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Phew! Close one...

One of the nastiest things that's ever happened here was when ReOrg3.1 (a disk defragmenter) had trouble right in the middle of a partition, crashed and of course took the block/directory details with it.

I think if you're going to defragment a drive like that you have to remove every single other application, tool or patch and make sure your power-supply is reliable. One mistake with defragging and it can do serious harm that even DiskSalv can't save you from.

Anyone got a UPS here?