ok, i ran disksalv and it got very confusing for me at the end, asking me for directories to save the data to. So ive decided to let the amiga validate itself as advised by amije.
How exactly do i get the amiga to do this? Ive left it sitting for 5 minutes and the hard disk light has not started flashing yet.
I must add that when workbench has booted, and i look at the volume information for the drive, it says "volume is validating" does this mean it is in the process of validating, even though the hard disk light is not illuminated"?