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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Harddisk will not validate
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 05:36:14 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <884.6630T1327T1591@netspace.net.au>
- References: <1996Feb21.215618.733@signus.demon.co.uk>
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- David Firth (david@signus.demon.co.uk) said:
- >Is there a utility that will *just* mark a disk as validated a disk
- >without performing a disk scan? The reason I ask is utilities like
- >DiskSalve returned no errors yet the disk is still not validated.
- >The disk was OK and had no errors prior to a program crash so I do
- >not suspect physical disk damage.
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- Your disk has to be validated or you can't write to it. I used to use
- DiskSalv 2 with Repair or Validate (Repair seemed to work better sometimes).
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- >Failing that is there any method to prevent the disk validation
- >process from running?
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- AmiFileSafe stops the drive from ever invalidating. I use it now.
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