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- From: ELA95CSH@shef.ac.uk (Chris)
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- Subject: Re: Harddisk will not validate
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 13:46:58 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Eng, University of Sheffield , UK
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- In article <884.6630T1327T1591@netspace.net.au>, astroboy@netspace.net.au
- says...
- <snip!>
- >>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.
- >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).
-
- I disagree! Validate seemed to crash (or freeze) less often on my old system
- (external 210Mb overdrive - still for sale!). That said, my hangs were caused
- by a lack of a good enough power supply, and so may not be too relevant....?
- Oh, I was using the PD version of DiskSalve (11.31)...which is now up to
- v11.32 .
-
- >AmiFileSafe stops the drive from ever invalidating. I use it now.
-
- It's great! It has saved me a lot of hassle from which FFS would have been a
- real pain :) . And it doesn`t appear to be incompatible with any of my Hd
- installed games :))) .
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- From Christopher Handley
- Email: ela95csh@sheffield.ac.uk
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