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- From: mitcht@alaska.net (Mitch Thompson)
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- Subject: Re: Best Way to proceed with an HD checksum error
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:18:33 GMT
- Organization: Internet Alaska Inc.
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- Hello, Berny Rieckhoff,
- > Hi Y'all!
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- > Last night I Installed the Humungouse MUI3.1-user on my WorkBench3.0 (Boot)
- > partition of my A1200. upon rebooting I got a "Checksum error on Block ????
- > on drive HD0" or words to that effect. Multiple retries couldn't get past
- > it, so I cancelled and boot proceeded normally. Opening (double click) my WB
- > Icon or doing dir/all produces the same error immediately, although likewise
- > after cancelling the requester everything proceeds normally. using show all
- > files in the WB window liokewise produces the error, but double clicking
- > anything except the MUI directory pruduces no error. double clicking the MUI
- > drawer of course brings up the requester, but a cancel allows the contents
- > to display fine.
-
- > What are the best steps to take ?
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- > Is there some repair that may avoid a full reformat/verify ? ie
- > could I delete MUI drawer, and mark that block bad ? If so how.
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- Download DiskSalv from aminet and use it in Repair Mode.
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- DiskSalv11_32.lha disk/salv 118K 25+Dave Haynie's DiskSalv version 11.32
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