| From: | kevin orme |
| Date: | 10 Jun 2001 at 17:33:56 |
| Subject: | Re: endlessly validating disk issue |
Thanks for your note, Nick. I got the thing fixed yesterday through a number of varied techniques:
1) boot the computer and start copying stuff off that partition before it locked up (worked enough to get some critical stuff off there)
2) use the suggestion someone else made in the AA group earlier of disabling the partition and then doing a 'quick format', then aiming disksalv at it to 'unformat' it - that worked pretty good.
3) after retrieving the files I needed, I just completely reformatted the partition and rebuilt the stuff on there,
Finally, most importantly, I learned the hard way, DO A BACKUP! :) If I had had a backup, I could have just reformatted and just dumped the backup on the partition and would have been good to go. As I work partially in Tech Support, this meant only my own hypocrisy came home to roost (one of time-honored ways to get off the phone in TS, usually after enduring a verbal barrage, is when a customer loses all their files or many of them and has no backup, you have to empathize but that's usually 'it' for their situation).
Thankfully the Amiga gives us a lot of little tricks like this to avoid disaster like that. I'm sure that at least some of those tricks exist on the PC but I'm glad I never had to use them. :)
Thanks for everyone's help! :)
Kevin Orme
amiga university
http://www.amigau.com
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