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Jeremy J. Devers (jdevers@comp.uark.edu) wrote:
> 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".
> Thanks in advance
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> NOw you have a signature!
First let me say this : my amiga works perfectly. Now; I have always used
Quarter back tools (quite old version now, something like 1.52) and it can solve
ANY problems I have ever had. To patition the drive in the first place I used
HD Toolbox 1.0 (NOT 1.1 as it didn`t work right for me for some stupid reason I
can`t remember. Whenever I play Syndicate the drive becomes unvalidated, and
on booting up workbench the drive is buzzin` for about 3 minutes with constant
access. Then I run QBT and it fixes it ALWAYS. It fixes all my other problems
from time to time like bad file checksums caused by using crap floppy disks
and defragments my drive nicely. I have had two hard drives in my
machine, a Conner CP2064 version 1.18 (64 MB) 2 1/2 inch, drew 640 milliamps
and my present Hitachi 340 MB 2 1/2 inch (draws 1 amp). I have never had a bad
block on any of my drives and they work beautifully.
part 2)
One day I decided to try the PD version of Disk Salve (version 2) from a
coverdisk. Now I thought it would be better than my old software, and for a
trail run I decided to have a nice leisurely defrag of my work: partition.
I nearly pissed myself. The thing crashed 1/3 of the way through and wrecked
all of my file structure. What a time. Ho hum.
I used QBT to get it all back properly (although I had lost some files).
I decided not to ever try it again until a year had passed (new version etc.)
The other day, I downloaded DiskSalve from Aminet. first time I launched it the
Fecking thing guru`d :(((
Second time as well.
It is not going to appear on my hard drive again for at least another year when
bug fixes might be put in. I will use QBT forever!!.
BTW I admire Dave a Haynie a lot and I do not want to detract from the register
-ed product at all, which is (from what I have heard ) marvellous.
