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- From: kroener@cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Kroener)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! validating HD
- Message-ID: <23316@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 17:33:52 GMT
- Sender: news@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de
- Organization: Computer Science, University of the Saarland, Germany
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- In article <92347.060235ADB103@psuvm.psu.edu> <ADB103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >Does anyone know how to correct this problem? About every 6 months a
- >situation will arise where the system crashes while it is writing to the
- >hard disk. When I reboot, I get a disk error due to a bad key. The disk
- >won't validate. I can still read from it except for the file that was being
- >written when the crash occurred. I cannot, however, write to the hard disk
- >because it is not validated. I usually reformat the disk and start from
- >scratch, but it seem like it should be fixable. (Like if you could override
- >the need for validation and erase the corrupt file). Any ideas? or pd programs
- >I should know about?
- > Much Thanks
- > Anthony Beecher
-
- NEVER (!!) delete a corrupt file on an unvalidated disk.
- I had the same problem and deleted the corrupt file (length 500kB), and
- the (also corrupt) pointers to the data deletes 500kB of data spread
- over the disk.
- After rebooting and validating the disk later, I could see only 16kB (16000
- Bytes) of my 65 MB Harddisk. No chance to get the information back (try to find
- something on a 65MB-disk using a disk-monitor :-)
-
- If you can read the disk (I couldn't) try to make a backup. After doing this
- try the tool 'Diskrepair' (PD) to correct the bad key. I never tested it,
- but friends say it works fine.
-
- ----Thomas
-