User`s guide

I've had success with repairing the directories on disks destroyed by
'click death' drives. I'd tried reformatting the disks on Win95 and 98 machines
but the format utility (even long format with verify) gives up too quickly and
reports the disk is either locked or damaged. Scandisk refuses to even look at
the disks and reports there is something wrong with them.
Using the Win3.1 guiutil.exe on an old 486, I was able to reformat thedisks
and they now work fine on all the various machines I've tried them on. This may
work with internal drives too but I use my good external parallel drive and
click on the drive icon and select format from the menu. When the disk starts to
click, press eject and a message will appear that the disk has a format and
would you like to continue formatting with verify.
Re-inject the disk, select continue and the format/verify will run for 9
minutes and 27 seconds, successfully repairing the disk every time I've tried it
this way (I've repaired 23 disks so far by this method including a couple my
friend was ready to throw out as he had tried just about everything - even a
Mac). Scandisk will even verify the disk is fine and I've had no further
problems with any of the disks repaired in this manner. Is the older version a
better program? I think it's that the Win3.1
guiutil.exe doesn't scrutinize the disks as much as the later versions do and
simply does the deed, which is the best way.
This method shouldn't work either but it does. Give it a try before heaving
your disks. I constantly use the repaired disks and have never had a repeat
failure with them.
Note: There is no guarantee that every drive or disk can be repaired as
described above. Some drives or disks may be too badly trashed.
Download guiutil.exe at ...
http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Utils/ClickOfDthFix_guiutil.zip
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From: Scott Alfter
025- What is a "Qic" tape? A friend needs to read a Qic-
80 tape.
QIC-80 is a format, not a brand or a specifier of capacity. Uncompressed
capacity for tapes in this format range from 60 megs (DC2120) to 250 megs (TR-1
Extra). It was preceded by QIC-40 and has since been superseded by QIC-3010,
QIC-3020, and QIC-3095 (the latter format delivers 4 gigabytes (uncompressed) on
a TR-4 tape, and is available in SCSI and IDE flavors for fast operation).
I'm not sure what format the 40-meg tape drive Apple used to sell used...it
might've been QIC-80 with a shorter tape (they use DC2000 tapes), but it was
probably different. I've never had one. For my GS, the tape drive I currently
use is an Archive Viper 60S (QIC-24 format, SCSI interface, puts 60 megs on a
DC600 cartridge).