Disk errors
26-Jul-89 19:16:41
Sb: #58886-Disk errors
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: james platzer 71310,437
James,
The validation process is when the disk is whirring after insert. It is
checking to see that the bitmap is valid – that the blocks that have been used
are marked as used, and stuff like that. Sometimes that takes quite a while if
the system thinks it has found an error on the disk.
By the way – I would use DiskDoctor as a last resort. Use DiskSalv first. You
will find it in Lib 14, DISKSA.ARC. It has saved many a lost disk!
Betty