FEATURES OF NOERRORS V1.3 * Hides physical errors from your disk collection * You can now use those 'Bad' disks * 100% Machine Code for the fastest speed & smallest code. * Totally written and updated regularly in Australia * Supports Hard Disks or Floppy Disks * Easy Gadget driven Intuition interface REQUIREMENTS Amiga 1000, 2000 or 500 with a minimum of 512k Ram. 1 - 4 floppy drives 1 or more Hard Drives optional PAL or NTSC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NoErrors is a trademark of Nic Wilson Software. This manual was prepared using Word Perfect (A trademark of the Word Perfect Corporation, Utah, U.S.A.) on an Amiga 1000 and 500. Amiga and AmigaDOS are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga Inc. Nic Wilson Software would like to extend their appreciation to the following persons for their help in the production of NoErrors V1.3 and documentation. Debbie Wilson - Proof reading, punctuation and patience Debi Sewell - Heaps of support, WordProcessing and graphics Warren Weber - Thanx for the company during many hours coding Donald Napper - For the great NoErrors icon John Rowe - For Artillery support in the war with Intuition Andre Lapointe - Many suggestions & constructive criticism Any questions, comments, or problems please refer to- Nic Wilson Nic Wilson Software 138D South St. Toowoomba, Qld. AUSTRALIA 4350 Phone-(076) 358539 INTRODUCTION NoErrors is a simple to use, Gadget driven program. Its main function is to hide physical disk errors from floppy disks and hard disks, so these disks can then be used without DOS showing read/write errors. Physical errors are actual hard errors on the disk surface. These errors will not format. On floppy disks this normally means that you throw the disk away. On some hard disks, you can remap these areas to good areas. However we have found that some commercial drives do no give you this function, so if your hard drive has an error, then bad luck you cannot use it successfully. NoErrors overcomes this problem by allocating these areas to a file, and writing this file to the disk. DOS will never look at these areas unless specifically requested, but as the file name of the file is an unprintable character this will never occur. If you are using a file utility program, the file can be seen normally as the first file on the list with no name. Don't delete it or your errors will reappear. NOTE!! This program will only work successfully on a newly formatted disk. This can be done inside the program. Don't use it on a disk full of files, or we cannot guarantee its success. THE MAIN WINDOW Around the main window you will see twelve small rectangular boxes with various text in them. These boxes are status lights and show you what the program is currently doing. In the middle of the screen is a small box with numerous rows. These show you information regarding the currently selected drive. This information will automatically update when a different drive gadget is selected. USING THE NoErrors FUNCTIONS NoErrors is totally Gadget driven. These gadgets are in a vertical row on the left of the screen. Each one is explained below, in order starting from the Gadget at the top of the screen. START This Gadget starts the Disk analysis routine. The selected drive will be scanned for errors. If any errors are found, they will be attached to a file and the file written to the disk. This will stop DOS from using those bad areas, as DOS will think that they are already used. Please note that you must only copy to this disk file at a time, so that this error file remains intact. FORMAT This Gadget performs two different functions, depending on whether the Verify Gadget is on or off. If the Verify Gadget is off, then this function will format and initialise the disk in the selected drive. It will not look for or check if the disk has any errors. It will automatically format with FastFile if necessary, it does not need to be told. If the Verify Gadget is turned on, this function will format and verify the disk in the selected drive. It will take note of any errors found. When the format is complete, it will automatically attach them to a file and write the file to the disk. This saves you having to use the START function after formatting with verify. VERIFY Turn verification on or off. See the FORMAT function. DH0: - DH3: , HD0: - HD1: , JH0: - JH1: , DF0 - DF3: These Gadgets select the drive you wish to work with. The one that is selected will have a small red light aglow beside it. All other Gadgets will use this drive, when performing their various functions. If your hard drive is called other than one of the names shown, you must change the name of your hard drive in your MountList to reflect one of the names shown above. POWER This Gadget exits the NoErrors program. HOW TO CONTACT NIC WILSON SOFTWARE Where to reach us: Nic Wilson Software, 138D South Street, Toowoomba. QLD. AUSTRALIA, 4350. Phone: (076) 358539 A/H (076) 358384 W/H Fax or Voice