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Offline Franko

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Re: X-copy tng ?
« on: May 26, 2011, 08:54:56 PM »
I think most of those programs are really only for copying disks not actually repairing them... :(

It also depends what you mean by "repair" are they just straight forward Amiga DOS disks with read errors on them are or you talking about original games disk that may be written in their own special format !!!

Of the top of my head I think DiskSalv was pretty good at salvaging Amiga DOS disks but for disks that have their own formats (ie: most commercial games disks) then I can't really think of anything that would be able to repair them... :(
 

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Re: X-copy tng ?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2011, 04:08:17 PM »
Quote from: carvedeye;640838
Well I have tried disksalv and I have had no luck it takes ages to read the disk and the program deleted everything on it all I want is a program that when a floppy disk is inserted it will give me an option to repair the blocks. Is there a program that can do it?


You were obviously using it wrong (bet you never read the docs...eh...;))

I you had used it properly you wouldn't have had things deleted and would have in actual fact had all successfully recovered files safely stored in RAM: or wherever you chose to store them during the salvaging process... ;)

You could try again with DiskSalv (but read the docs this time) or look on AmiNet for a very old utility called "FixDisk" it's not as good as DiskSalv but it should be simple enough for you to use, just remember to read the docs first this time... ;)

Here's a link to FixDisk on AmiNet... :)

FixDisk on AmiNet
 

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Re: X-copy tng ?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2011, 04:52:41 PM »
@ Carvedeye

DiskSalv can take what seems like a long time simply because it was the best written program of it's type, it does a lot more checking of the disks and carries out a lot more recovery options/ attempts compared to others like FixDisk, but it's worth the extra time spent if the disk is valuable to you... :)

I've never known X-Copy to have a repair function in it. It has a "checkdisk" function to report errors but no salvage or repair function (at least X-CopyPro which I still use hasn't)... :)

Handy tip:-

A very simple way to check a floppy disk properly that you may be going to use to write stuff to is:- Use X-Copy to FORMAT the disk as it will soon tell you if the disk has any bad sectors that can't be written to... :)

This also applies to disks that you can't Format using the Amiga's Format command or menu. For example some programs (mostly games) will write it's high scores or saved games in a non-DOS format. If you chose later on on to use these disks for something else but when you try to Format them with the Amiga DOS Format command/ menu option and find you can't, then use the Format option in X-Copy and in most cases this will make the disk fully usable again (it's great for recovering disks that appear to appear to Amiga DOS to be knackered) ... :)

If I may ask, what is it your trying to repair and what is it you have now managed to delete totally as myself or others here may be able to help you out in replacing these damaged disks... :)
 

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Re: X-copy tng ?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 05:27:41 PM »
Quote from: digiflip;640854
well if disk salv is like hdd repair software Ie hdd repair software when run fully usually takes like 24 hours but i would think take much less than 24 hours for a floppy ie less than 1 megabyte.


It takes 20 to 30 minutes AT MOST to run all the DiskSalv options on a floppy... :)
 

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Re: X-copy tng ?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2011, 05:53:48 PM »
Quote from: freqmax;640867
Disksalv supposedly wrecks disks..


Never had a problem with it myself... :)