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From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need to make HD validate
Message-ID: <1991May01.213724.8499@disk.uucp>
Date: 1 May 91 21:37:24 GMT
References: <1991May1.062224.24977@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
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bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:

>Well, during some heavy disk activity tonight (involving much reading and
>writing simultaneously), my system crashed.  Now, I can't seem to the
>second partition of my HD to validate.  Any suggestions?  (In desperation,
>I used DiskDoctor, to no avail).  I DON'T WANT to have to reformat.  Is
>there a program out there that'll put the disk back into shape?  I don't
>care if I lose files.  I can reload them from backup.

>-bevis

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>|Jeff Bevis / Purdue EE     |      Three is never equal to four, except       |
>|bevis@ecn.purdue.edu       |        for very large values of three...        |
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Sounds like you may have shut off your system right after writing or delete a
file...so you still have some type of Key Validation error. I have done this
many times. Diskdoctor always fixes it...you don't really have to reformat as
it tells you to. 

But I don't quite understand where your comming from?!?! Whats the use of 
validating the drive and losing files to restore from a backup, when you could
just reformat and restore from a backup?!?! Just take a few minutes to format
and restore from the backup rather than hours fixing it only to have to restore
from a backup anyway...unless you have files you still want on there.

Byron
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