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- ¶3
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- RETURN OF THE
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- READ/WRITE ERROR
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- ¶1How often haven't you seen that ugly
- requester.. "read/write error" ? It
- ruins everything, it makes you go mad,
- it gives you a blackout of furiosity!
- It appeared again, on my sourcedisk!
- It has done it one time before, then I
- nearly lost everything.
-
- Luckily there are recovery programs
- like DiskSalv, FixDisk and some other
- minor programs. I managed to rescue
- the disk, fortunately.
-
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- ¶3 HOW TO AVOID READ/WRITE ERRORS
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- ¶1There are some things you could do to
- avoid read/write errors: Always make
- a backup of important disks that you
- use a lot (sourcedisks, Always use
- quality disks for important files! Do
- ¶3NOT ¶1use any grey, noname disks. These
- are the ones with the highest
- read/write percentage! (That's why
- they are so cheap!)
- Blue noname disks are one level
- above grey, but not good enough! Use
- quality disks, like TDK, EverData,
- SKC! Use HD disks if your drive can
- handle them! Don't use noname disks
- for anything but not-so-important
- files!
-
- ¶3NEVER ¶1take the disk out, or reset
- while the drive ¶3LED ¶1is lit! No matter
- if the drive is writing or reading!
- That's what I did, and I almost lost
- everything!
-
- ¶3NEVER ¶2start a program i.e. from
- Assembler when the drive ¶3LED ¶2is lit!
- The program may crash, and then it's
- that wellknown pain..
-
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- ¶3 HOW TO REPAIR A DAMAGED DISK
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- ¶1For repairing a disk, you should use
- FixDisk or DiskSalv. They are the
- only programs which is trustable.
-
- There are some other programs which
- recovers lost files, i.e. LastHope.
- Unfortunately they never do what you
- want them to do; recover files
- properly.
-
- If there's only a few files you want,
- and the requester shows "Not A DOS
- Disk" - And you have an Action Replay,
- this is what you could do:
-
- I just load the file to a free memory
- area, and save it to another disk
- using the "SM" command. This is
- possible because Action Replay doesn't
- use trackdisk.device, but it's own
- disk routines.
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- ¶3 OTHER TRICKS
- ¶2 ----------------
- ¶1I read somewhere that if a file has a
- read/write error, and you have an
- extra drive, you should try loading
- the file from DF1:/2:/3: since it is
- less used that the internal drive.
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- ¶3 BEWARE
- ¶2 ----------
- ¶1Beware if the file has got a
- read/write error, and the drive isn't
- making that annoying "schrkk, sckhrrk"
- sound, it could possibly be a virus!
- Also, if you are sure that it isn't
- a virus, it's easier to recover a file
- with the "soft" read/write error than
- the "hard" one (schrkk..)
-
- Beware of the.. (loud orchestra
- music) ... Read/Write error!
-
- ¶3 Lloyd
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