I've been reading this newsgroup for a long time, and the other amiga related
groups as well. This is the first time I've ever posted anything, mainly
because I've never needed help like this before. I was recently gunziping
a file and my entire system crashed, no problem I thought.... Well, my work
partition wasn't validated, so I waited the five minutes or so for it to
vailidate (about a 700 meg partition), but it wouldn't validate so I ran
disksalv which appeared to work fine. When I quit disksalv, the drive
still wouldn't validate and just gave me "...block out of range" error.
I've had this error before, so I rebooted and ran disksalv again. After this
try (with the repair function instead of the validate function), I was told that
block 1010 was used twice. I've never had this error before and I've gone on
to try disksalv many times, and nothing will get rid of that error. I don't have a complete backup of the partition so reformatting isn't a real option. If
I could delete files, I could LHA the whole partition to another partition, but
without deleting some unimportant things, it would never fit. Is there something I haven't tried yet? Or is there someway to delete something when the drive
isn't validated? I would be extremely grateful for any help I receive here.
BTW, I have an Amiga 1200 with 030 50, and the HD is a 800 meg Seagate IDE 3.5".
