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From: schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help! 3000 Hard Drive full: Won't Verify
Message-ID: <16012@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 09:06:22 GMT
Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
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I need help. We have a 100MB hard drive on a 3000/25. The students
filled an entire 65MB partition. Now there is a checksum error and the
partition won't verify at all. What can I do? I imagine that the 
problem is that the last file written, which didn't fit is causing the
problem. However, since the partition won't verify I can't delete or
even rename any files. 

We have an ethernet set up and decided to just transfer all the files to 
another machine via the ethernet, then reformat the hard drive. However,
when the copying got to the file with the checksum error it failed, and
unfortunately it was only about 1/3 of the way through.

Does anyone have any ideas, short of refomatting the partition and losing
all the files? I know others have been complaining about the same problem
lately on the net? Did anyone have any solutions? I'm certain that fixdisk 
could solve the problem, but it only works on partitions under 48MB and this 
one is 65MB. Are there any other PD programs that might fix this? 

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Sean Schur		    			USENET: schur@isi.edu	
Assistant Director Amiga/Media Lab		Compuserve: 70731,1102	
Character Animation Department			Plink: OSS259		
California Institute of the Arts
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