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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!cq812
- From: cq812@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Charlene McNulty)
- Subject: Re: Validation and Delete
- Message-ID: <DM8yp2.3AI@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: cq812@freenet2.carleton.ca (Charlene McNulty)
- Reply-To: cq812@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Charlene McNulty)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960203013050.9886A-100000@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:34:14 GMT
-
-
- The Ghost (marvin@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu) writes:
- > Hello all,
- >
- > I'm in a tight situation, I have accidently filled a partition on
- > my hard drive. As one knows filling a partion on a hard (at least on a
- > 3000) leads to the Hard drive not being able to validate. The only way to
- > stop this would be to delete something, however, we also know that one cannot
- > delete from a partition (or drive) that's not validated, or can
- > we???Thats the question I pose to you now. How can I validate the drive
- > when full or at leastdelete something so as it can validate???
- >
- > Any help would be appreciated.
- >
- > Thank You
- > Marvin
- >
-
- Probably the DiskSalv program is the way to go, as suggested
- by a previous post.
-
- I just had a 'simple' thought, that may sound so 'simple',
- it just may work. Try _MOVING_ stuff, you want to delete, into
- the _trashcan_, and then 'empty trash'.
-
- Just a thought.. Would be real curious, to know if it worked.
-
- Charlene
-
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