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- From: bros@cadvision.com ('Night Manager')
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help! Hard Drive Not Validated
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:58:55 GMT
- Organization: CADVision
- Message-ID: <4djh2p$t52@huey.cadvision.com>
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- kslaght@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:
-
- >Not too long ago, I boot up my amiga 500 (Rev 6a, WB2.1, 2 Megs Fast, 1/2
- >meg Chip, AdIDE controller, 40 Meg HD with R/W errors and 4 partitions -
- >2 of which are not mounted as they are clumps of bad blocks) to find my
- >2nd paritition had a funny looking name (non-alpha characters) and that
- >when I clicked on the icon, it gave me the old "This Icon has no default
- >tool" error message. So, I fired up DiskSalv to rectify the problem, and
- >it seems to work. However, when I tried to access the partition, I find
- >it's only got 488 Bytes free (odd for a WB2.1 partition, isn't it?) and
- >isn't validated. Before all the problems, I had lots of space on that
- >partition. I used disksalv once more to validate the partition, but it
- >doesn't work, giving me an error messages at the very end saying 'Block
- >xxxxxxxxx is out of range : cannot validate'. Now, of course, when I
- >boot up, I get the same message, and a cancel or retry will get rid of
- >it, even if it won't help the problem. I can still access all files on
- >the partition, but that's about it.
-
- Backup and format. That is the BEST way. If you want to take a chance try
- disk salv. If you could care less about what you have on your drive, use disk
- doctor.
-
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