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- From: chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: faulty hard drive
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:26:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1354.6632T1266T2519@fuchal.demon.co.uk>
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- Hey, A.R. Gutcher, you mumbled somthing about Re: faulty hard drive on 27-Feb-
- 96 11:55:49?
- AG> Jeremy J. Devers (jdevers@comp.uark.edu) wrote:
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- >> 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.
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- Try selecting "Another Device" on the disksalve requestor then quitting from
- the main menu. Supposedly a tiny bug in there that didn't like being quit
- from the requestor
-
- Chris
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