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From: hunt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Disk Validation Failure...
Keywords: Help(!)
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Date: 29 May 90 23:15:26 GMT
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I asked this a week ago in c.s.a.t and got no reply so I'm asking
it here...

Whilst moving a file on my hard disk I got a write error.  It seemed to go
away after I hit "Retry," but upon a later reboot my hard disk tried (and
failed) to validate.  An error requestor was put up saying (something like):
"Key 180840 already set."

I know which file caused the error, but I cannot alter it (eg: erase it) 'cause
AmigaDOS won't let me touch an unvalidated disk.  So I ask, is there anything
I can do short of backing up the entire disk and reformatting?  And what is
a AmigaDOS "key" anyway?  I'm up for some low-level AmigaOS hacking if
necessary...

Thanks much...


--Lee
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