Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75585 comp.sys.amiga.tech:17356 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!tll From: tll@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: HD Errors Message-ID: <1991Jan3.004753.9488@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 3 Jan 91 00:47:53 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 21 rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes: >I was testing out a program that wrote out a file to disk, in any case >the program was stuck in an infinate loop, so I was forced to do a >reboot, and now I get: >Volume HardDisk has a checksum error on disk block 27030 >And thus my main partition (92MB) is unable to validate. Is there any >way that I can resolve this error without a reformat? This has happened to me several times in the past week. I ran ran the AMIGADos DiskDoctor on the hard drive. The bad news is that the file name that you were writting to may still show up in the FAT and it will stay there until you need to reformat to remove it. I am sure the is a utility out there to patch that area. I would try this as a only as a last resort. Tal.