#tech-problem
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Sorry, I lost my adress book. Please route this message to Steve Pietrovicz
(?).
You're right… First a programm crashed and then I rebooted the system.
After that I got the "VALIDATING" message. The problem was that the message
never disapears (I gave the computer a whole night to validate the disk!).
Is there any possibility or utility that can help in such a situation?
After that I want to reinstall the software using "PREP", but I had the
same problem as you – the utility was'nt able to "reformat" the disk…
What can I do in such a situation?
I don't know what you can do when the disk keeps "Validating", other than
go to reformat the disk. The main thing to prevent that from happening is
to be sure that disk activity has stopped before rebooting.
When the "PREP" problem happened to me, I went looking through the
installation scripts, and I found there was either an option to "PREP" or
another utility that would "un-prep" the drive. (I can't remember which).
Anyway, I did the "un-prep" and when went back to the beginning. I was
then able to reinstall/reformat everything.
Look around the installation scripts you have, and see what you can find.
What controller are you using?
Steve
When trying the 2088 bridgeboard in a 3000, I switched to another screen
while a utility that puts a hard drive partition for the PC on the AMIGA
hard drive was running, The HD got invalidated too. I did some sector
editing to kill the bad keys that retry reported and then had a friend with
an optical disk salvage the 60 megs of data that was on the drive:( Took a
VERY long time. I also lost some data and haven't tried the BB again
(though I will).
HarryM