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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need to make HD validate
Message-ID: <1543@ewu.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 91 03:54:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: ewu.1543
References: <1991May1.062224.24977@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <18730001@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA
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In article <18730001@hplsla.HP.COM>, tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
> 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.
> 

There is a PD utility called Validate that supposedly forces disk validation,
I have it, but haven't had the opprtunity to use it.  I got mine from the
Software Distillery, but it should be on one of the Fred Fish disks.  If you
cand't find it, tell me and I'll email it to you.

-Matt Pierce