| From: | Michael Carter |
| Date: | 16 May 2000 at 14:09:48 |
| Subject: | RE: Validation Problems |
>-----Original Message-----
>From: alansheriff@ukonline.co.uk [mailto:alansheriff@ukonline.co.uk]
>
>my wife, (you gotta love `em), in her infinite wisdom,
>switched off the
>Amiga, straight after quitting Genesis & Microdot, but before waiting
>for the disk activity to finish.
>Now when I try to run Genesis, Voyager etc. I get the message `Volume
>Internet is not validated, retry/cancel`. Retrying does nothing, but
does any constant disk activity happen? sometimes it is best to leave it
with the requester on screen for a while then retry when the disk activity
ceases.
>bring back the requestor, whilst canceling allows the program to load,
>but usually ends up crashing the computer or bringing up an `illegal
>activity- reboot/suspend` requestor.
probably because it is trying to write to the cache directory but cannot,
and Voyager never checks this state! It crashes when the HDD gets full too!
>I`ve tried using quarterback to sort it but apparently the volume has
>no `valid volume bitmap` & then before it finishes checking the drive
>quarterback crashes.
get DiskSalv from Aminet and do a validation on the partition.
>Any ideas what I can do about it, that doesn`t involve
>reformatting a 2
>gig partition?
I'd recommend getting PFS3. Since I bought it I've had *NO* validation
problems at all and my machine crashes a lot, especially testing dodgy Beta
software & my own programs :) hehe.
Bye,
M!Ke C.
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