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- From: scott@electrondreams.com (Scott Bragg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Trouble with newest IBrowse
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 15:14:05 GMT
- Organization: Electron Dreams
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- nekosan@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (John Gerardi) wrote:
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- >I just tried downloading the latest demo version (r5) of IBrowse and
- >either I already had a bad sector on my HD or it had a major flaw.Just be
- >careful if you want to get it.It may have a problem or its just my
- >drive.When I was downloading it from my service provider it almost
- >finishe when I got a write error message-twice.I logged off and when I
- >tried to reboot I got the Workbench 3.0 screen the one with animated
- >disc.I rebooted again and the drive took forever to boot and then when I
- >opened the Workbench it told me my drive was full and the drive light
- >kept flashing.I tried to delete Ibroswe and got a message that the HD was
- >not validated.After a few reboots I was able to delete IBrowse and I
- >think my drive is okay.Again it might just be my drive and I'll have to
- >clean it out or spring for a new one.Just be careful if you want try out
- >the latest demo of IBrowse.
-
- I tried sending this via Email, but your email address is munged
- pretty bad... take a look at the headers of your post.
-
- This problem more than likely has nothing to do with IBrowse. You
- state that you got a write error when you were downloading the file.
- The act of downloading a file in no way activates or runs that file.
- Any error you get while downloading is related to either the transfer
- program or to your hard drive.
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- What it looks like has happened is you had a bad sector or other
- problem on you drive that the download tripped over. The second time
- you rebooted, your drive was attempting to re-validate the file map.
- This can take from a few seconds (on a very, very fast machine) to an
- hour or more for slower machines or slower hard drives. By rebooting
- while this was happening you run a very good risk of losing many more
- files or getting to the point where the machine will not boot at all.
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- I suggest trying to back up everything on the drive to floppy or tape
- with something like Amiback or Quarterback, reformatting the hard
- drive and restoring the files. Do a file backup and not an image
- backup as you want to rebuild the disk maps and an image backup just
- restores the hard drive to EXACTLY the same state it was before the
- backup.
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- I hope this helps. It wasn't IBrowse, but the Amiga's slightly buggy
- and unstable file system that caught you here.
-
- Scott Bragg
- Owner/Animator
- Electron Dreams Animation & Multimedia
- http://www.electrondreams.com
- http://www.electrondreams.com/frames (experimental HTML 3.0 pages)
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