Re: Photdesk destroyed my ADFS partition! HELP!!!


"Martin Wuerthner" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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"Martin Wuerthner" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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"Manu T" <manu-t@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Next thing ADFS gives me a failure telling me that my harddisk isn't
formatted!!!
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If there is anything that can help you, it is DiscKnight.
http://www.armclub.org.uk/products/discknight/
Everyone should always have a floppy with this program on ready. It is
easily worth several times the small price it costs.

Too late. I'm through spending ANY more money on this machine.

But this is not about the machine - it would have cost only 10 Pounds
to have a fair chance of recovering all your data - if your data is
not even worth that, it cannot have been that important after all.

Martin

I bought Hard Disc Companion 2 and LookSystems Disc Rescue. I have FSCK too.
I bought EEsox SCSI2-cd-romdriver, !CDBurn from WSS. I previously invested
in a Powertec SCSI-2 card with complimented ZIP-drives which never properly
worked. I bought a second SCSI-2 interface (Castle Storm SCSI2) from missery
with the Powertec which I still have inside the RPC (and which admitidly
worked/works great). During the RPC's lifespan it's Zip-drives, SCSI CDRW
and SCSI Scanner broke down (bye bye goes investment of Epson GT-Twain
drivers from David pilling).So the expensive SCSI-cards are sitting there
collecting dust.

I had the RPC's original 210MB HDD which contained a yearly backup (or
half-yearly) but not as regularly because I had to fimple with the
configuration and RISC OS started finding read errors on that drive recently
(proably due to it's age and not being used as much).

Was I yet to buy another software? When it was too late now?

There is a cost issue here. I can keep pouring money into this old machine
but at one time this stops. It stopped when many programs that I paid good
money for weren't going to get further developped. It was clear that at that
point any more investment in my RISCOS machine was a dead end. Interest in
my RPC faded. Soon I only used Prophet Accounting software alone and not the
stuff where I bought the RPC intentionally for namely DTP-stuff. And
therefore I never knew about the program that you pointed out to me and
hence never bought it.

Tell you what. From now on I'll use a simple spread*** as my
accounting-program. I'll try to stick with file formats that I can transfer
to ANY OS or program (like .XLS-spreadsheets) without weird and exotic file
structures. I'll use computers with easy to use and AFFORDABLE
backup-solutions. With friendly ppl around to help me when things go wrong
(much more friendly ppl in the local PC shop's these days, then in here).

You see I DON'T NEED patronising when I all I ask is some advice as to where
I can find a proper !Boot-structure (obviously not on RISCOS Ltd's website)
or if I ask if there is a way to recover data from a lost partition table.
Perhaps if you pour some money into ROS Ltd. bank-account you can go to
another download area where you can find this CD-image; I dunno...

I have enough problems already without you guys patronising me!

AT least I thank YOU (and you alone) because you responded the quickest and
for being the LEAST patronising of the pack of hyenas that is these
newsgroups.

Have a good life,

Manu T
Cheers



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