[Ti] Anybody ever used Tech Tools Pro 4?

[Robert Nicholson]

In the interests of setting the record straight on this one the I 
decided to give the drive another go and sure enough the thing mounts 
now. The machine would have nothing of it before but now it seems to be 
working again.

Go figure. So for now TT4 is in the clear but I won't be running it 
against this drive unless
it's absolutely necessary.

On Jan 25, 2004, at 9:49 PM, John Griffin wrote:

> David typed this message on 1/24/04 9:19 AM:
>
>> If you had been running a TEST forcing it to quit shouldn't have done
>> anything that would damage the partition or system. But if you were 
>> running
>> a REPAIR and force quit - well you might have quit just as the 
>> program was
>> over-writing some important information. Think about it - while 
>> repairing,
>> data is stored in memory and data is overwritten. Should the program 
>> quit at
>> the wrong time a repair would be incomplete - that could be disaster. 
>> That
>> might be your experience.
>
> This, however, would not account for the fact that now Robert has a 
> drive
> that won't even spin up (making it an expensive door stop or paper 
> weight).
> This is definitely a hardware problem. If it was a fudged directory, at
> least he should be able to format the drive and install a clean system 
> on
> it.
>
> It sounds as if TTP4 did something to the drive firmware. Very 
> strange....!
>
> jg
>
>
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