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corrupted partition
« on: August 14, 2006, 04:32:42 PM »
Hello people:
One of my partitions (HD1), has got corrupted, i dont know how or why, but it appears as "NON DOS DISK"
Is there a way to recover that partition and its contents? I have tried Disk Salv 4, but i dont know how to make that partition operative again. Is there a way to achieve this without loosing all the info i had on that partition?

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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2006, 07:01:10 PM »
What filesystem is on the partition? (OFS/FFS/SFS/PFS...) Some recovery utilities only work with certain filesystems. What were the results of Disk Salv?

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50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2006, 07:21:30 PM »
@motorollin: the filesystem is FFS
The results with Disk Salve were not good: it didnt put the partition operational again (i dont know if this is the right program to achive that). I tried undelete & unformat options, but that didnt gave me what i wanted.
I dont know why it shows as "non dos disk", since i didnt do anything strange. Is there a way to validate the partition again?
Any suggestions?

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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2006, 07:36:22 PM »
Non DOS disk doesn't mean it isn't validated, it means that it is not recognised as a FFS partition. You need to run something like Quarterback Tools which might be able to recover the files even if AmigaDOS won't see the partition as FFS, or you need to restore the filesystem on the disk (which would destroy the data).

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20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2006, 08:25:40 PM »
Ok!
Thanks for the info!!!

Will try it when i get home!!!!
Thanks!!!

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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2006, 09:49:08 PM »
   Have you tried using the "Salvage" option on DiskSalv?  Also, in terms of "fixing" the partition, you're best to focus your efforts on copying all your data off that partition and then just reformating it.
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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2006, 06:11:51 PM »
Well...thanks to your tips, i managed to recover the corrupted partition
an odd thing happened, tough: my wb startup isnt loaded when wb boots up, so my wb screen looks ugly!
How can i get the wb startup programs to be loaded again?
I cant remember if i have to call them from user-startup or from startup-sequence...
Any ideas on this?

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Re: corrupted partition
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2006, 06:29:40 PM »
Items in WBStartup are called by LoadWB, not by the Startup-Sequence or User-Startup. Look inside the drawer and make sure there are things inside it.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 
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