bjoerns@stud.cs.uit.no (Bjoern Stabell) (02/06/91)
I've had a very disturbing experience recently - my HD is crashed, or
so it seems. I'll give you all the details so you can figure out it
yourself:
(I have an Amiga 2000 with a 40meg HD, three partitions one 50 kB, one
2MB and one 40MB. I 'only' have problems with the larges partition.)
It started when I was doing some compiling of a sprite proggy
with the Lattice C Compiler 5.04 - I got a guru each time... Then
suddenly, the source file was corrupt, i.e. I got only rubbish when I
loaded it into CED.
So, the machine crashed again (with a guru) and when it
rebooted, I got an 'Error validating disk - key 64325 (something big)
allready set'. At this point I began suspecting something was terribly
wrong - I didn't backup the HD though (I DON'T HAVE A BACKUP OF THE
HD), and tried running MarkBad, but it came short - no errors on this
disk.
Now the 'crash' came, when I booted again I got - 'Not a DOS
disk in unit 1' (which is where I have my HD of course). The Work-
partition didn't work... :(
That's the story so far, I have NO IDEA how to proceed next - I only
know a friend of mine (who also suffered a HD-crash) had to change the
whole disk after sending back and forth between him and the service-
men for half a year.
Please advice! :-) Will QuarterBack Tools do the job correcting the
corrupt disk? In advance - thank you very much!
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