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| 4500.1 | | WJG::GUINEAU | the number 42 comes to mind | Fri Feb 08 1991 13:53 | 3 |
| Have you tried disksalve or Quarterback tools?
john
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| 4500.2 | QBTools Curse | DICKNS::MACDONALD | VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs | Fri Feb 08 1991 13:54 | 21 |
| Well, I experienced a similar problem last night. I noticed that some
of my icons were trashed or not displaying at all. I also discovered
that I was getting read/write errors, programs not executing and so on.
My solution:
1. Build a small fire in the back yard.
2. Get it nice and hot.
3. Toss Quarterback Tools into it.
I am convinced that my recent use of QB Tools V1.3d did a real serious
number of both of my drives.
So, I reformatted both drive last night and restored all the files.
Unfortunately, some of the restored files are corupted from the last
time I used V1.3c.
This weekend's task is to check all my files, then back up the drives
again.
Paul
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| 4500.3 | QBTools or... | DECWET::DAVIS | Say what? | Fri Feb 08 1991 15:06 | 23 |
| I have been hearing a lot of cursing of QB Tools. I have also heard a
lot of praise for "Tools". I have used QB Tools version 1.3a for the
last couple of weeks to undelete files and restructure my partitions
while converting from my A500 to A2000 and have not had a glitch.(my
largest partition is 140Meg). No lost icons, no drive trashing, no
nothing. It does, for me at least, what it was designed to do. I
spoke with two other persons on Internet who were experiencing problems
with QB Tools, specifically, and other utilities/applications in
general. Both found that they had a virus on multiple files. I can't
remember whether it was Xeno, or some other varient but the virus was
contracted from a version of Lharc(or some Lharc clone) which they
copied from someone or downloaded from a FTP site. This is not to say
that this is your problem but it might be worth a look. They both ran
"Berserker" from one of the latest Fish disks and cleaned up their
files. Both are happy campers now. One other thing, when I had my
A500 with 3meg Ram and 200meg hard drive I couldn't get QB Tools to run
consistently. It didn't trash my files or anything like that it just
wouldn't start the reorganization.(I was running a Supra SCSI
controller). With my A2000 and GVP SCSI+Accelerator and 9megs RAM I
haven't had ANY problems. Maybe changing the memory settings before
you start whatever action you are trying to accomplish might help.
mark
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| 4500.4 | | KYOA::MIANO | John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr | Fri Feb 08 1991 15:33 | 5 |
| RE: .1
>Have you tried disksalve or Quarterback tools?
Neither one. I assume that QB is something you buy, right?
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| 4500.5 | | HKFINN::MACDONALD | VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs | Fri Feb 08 1991 15:33 | 2 |
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How does the Xeno manifest itself?
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| 4500.6 | Check VirusX docs. | DECWET::DAVIS | Say what? | Fri Feb 08 1991 17:27 | 7 |
| I do not know for sure, but I will inquire. According to the guys I
spoke with apps/programs that ran before infection usually crashed or
hung afterwards. I believe in the Docs for VirusX there is a description
of the various viruses.
md
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| 4500.7 | I'm sort of happy now | KYOA::MIANO | John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr | Fri Feb 08 1991 21:07 | 19 |
| Well I managed to recover. Here's how.
1) I used DISKSALV as suggested
This produces an unbelievable mess of file fragments.
2) I did a "SEARCH" on all the files for strings in the
MOUNTLIST.HD file.
3) I then was able to create a mountlist.hd file.
4) I was able to mount the partition containing the mountlist file.
5) The mounstlist.hd file was now accessable so I used it
to mount the other partitions.
6) I was then able to diskdoctor and recover most everything.
WHooooooooooooo.
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