My data is all gone

[amigagr]

what softwear you have use at first place to save the rdb of the disk? you know, you don't need any other softwear except HDToolbox, i believe is the safest option. and of course it was a big mistake to install the ffs in a previus sfs disk and to want to save it... from now on, after you setup the disk save the rdb and a mountlist of the partitions from hdtoolbox and with the latest sfs save them in every possible place just in case... (i have both the setups of 1200 and 3000 in every partition of both the amigas plus cdroms and emergency disks...) http://strohmayer.org/sfs/files/SFS_1.247.lha

[amigagr]

in theory if you use a hardfile or an amiga formated disk with uae it will work

[amigagr]

ncafferkey wrote:
The question though is whether the available recovery tools are able to find old partitions in these circumstances.

in my amigas all the known hd tools don't work with sfs and the disk of motorolin if i remember well was formated with sfs

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@motorolin: as i see you didn't save the rdb before you start all this mesh... now, if you remember excactly the number of blocks that was on the partitions in first place and you install the disk with sfs from scratch and setup the partitions with the same blocks the partitions would be back ok... or... they sould be back ok if you didn't involve the ffs and quick format the drive...

[amigagr]

the identifier of sfs in my disk is 0x53465300 sfs\00
the 0x444F5303 is the identifier of the ffs
it's a bit risky but i thing that you must remove the ffs completly from the disk. the identifier that you write for sfs is wrong too. read it carefuly.

[amigagr]

yes you can, the easyest way is to remove the sfs and reinstall it. after the sellect of sfs from disk the identifier is ''editable'' (if i can use this word). you must type this: 0x53465300. after this the identifier is selected automaticaly when you set the file system of the partition

[amigagr]

format the floppy in amiga because the winxp don't do it for 720kb disks:) and good luck

[amigagr]

don't use the identifier that hdtoolbox will give you by it self. use this: 0x53465300 and it would be ok.

[amigagr]

the HDToolbox is good enough for this job and it's ''free'' as it's part of the workbench tools, as for disksalv i never try a less usefull stuff (for me) in amiga as this.

[amigagr]

that's a good point, except that at least in my amigas floppy has boot priority 5

[amigagr]

ta daaah or like super goofy lol:) but it's a good idea:)

[amigagr]

yeh we save the world once again  :-)  :-)  :-)
good work moto :-)

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now, load HDToolbox and save the rdb and a mountlist of the hard drive, just in case... :-)

[amigagr]

yes it's sounds like a shoap opera :-)

[amigagr]

and what do you do all this lha files after that? how can you be sure that the hard disk won't crash completly and you will loose all the data on all partitions? in my 1200 a have a cdrw connected as slave in the plain ide port and it works fine. it saved me a lot of times from really big adventures:)))

[amigagr]

i saw this nightmare once, back in the floppy days, because of  amiback tools, in the middle of an optimize it crashed, and i restore all my progs back, file by file from a mountain of floppys, originals and backups. it take a week and tones of coffee too :-)