Usenet Explorer

Thanks for that alex. The problem file was actually bd.00.mdb and was sitting on a patch of unreadable sectors so there was a chunk of missing data in the latter part of the file. I put the recovered bd.00.mdb, bd.01.mdb and cnt.dat files into database\bodies and started U.E. U.E. restored 4186 bodi...

I had a problem with the hard drive that my Usenet Explorer database was installed on. There are small number of unreadable sectors - the hard drive is clearly on the way out. I've cloned the entire partition minus the unreadable sectors using dd_rescue on a Knoppix live CD. One of the files that I ...