My Amiga crashed during a download, and now gives a system error when
booting that says "Volume work (a partition on my hard drive) has a
read/write error" and "volume work could not be validated." I have had this
happen before on floppies, but don't know what to do about a hard drive.
Any suggestions? Is it safe to use?
<-SJK->
Steven,
Chances are that the partition is now Read Only. (do an INFO command from
a shell and check.) When this has happened to me in the past, I've used
QuarterBack to back up the offending partition, and then reformatted and
restored the drive from the backup. It's possible that something like
QuarterBack Tools will be able to restore the drive to functionality
without reformatting, BUT, it is strongly recommended that you back up the
drive first, just in case.
Hope this helps,
David