matt@telesoft.com (Matt Halls @day) (10/27/90)
I had a strange problem the other night and was wondering if anyone else has ever had a similar experience. I have an Amiga 3000 and am running the 2.0 workbench. I recieved a software update for my word processor and tried to copy the files from the floppy to my hard drive. I tried to do this by doing a group drag. I selected all the files I wanted to copy and then ( I'm still green to Amiga OS) selected Copy from the workbench pull down menu. The little zzz icon appeared and the machine froze up. I waited a few minutes then rebooted. When the machine came back I got an error that the the hard disk was not validated and gave me an error number. I kept trying to retry on the validation but nothing happened. I tried several reboots and was unsuccessful at reviving my hard drive. The workbench showed the hard drive at 100% full even though I know I only had about 5mb out there. We'll I decided I probably had a bad spot on the hard drive. Luckily It let me read everything on the drive but everytime I tried to write to it I got the sorry drive not validated message. I backed up my hard disk and reformatted it restored the system software from my original floppies and then put all my software back on the disk. I then tried to recopy the killer files from the floppy to the hard drive. This time I was taking no chances and I moved them one at a time by dragging them. When I tried to copy one of the files the machine crashed and rebooted ... I was sweating at this point... Luckily it rebooted with out the validation problem. I tried it again ( stupid ehh) and got the same result. Obviously this file must be corrupt. I called the Software company that sent me this disk and they said that's impossible that the file is only a text file and couldn't crash the machine. This leaves me wondering. Do I have a bad hard disk or is this truely a killer file. -matt