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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: djkoelkast on April 06, 2008, 02:15:30 PM

Title: Harddisk checksum error/0K free error solving
Post by: djkoelkast on April 06, 2008, 02:15:30 PM

Something went wrong so the Amiga rebooted, but now I get checksum errors and there's 0K free on the disk, however there was over 800MB free on this 1GB partition.

I run OS 3.9 with BB1/BB2/Euro update

How can I fix this so it gives the actual free space left and stop giving errors.

I can't boot fully as some things crash, boot with no startup-sequence however does work.

Title: Re: Harddisk checksum error/0K free error solving
Post by: Argus on April 06, 2008, 04:10:30 PM

Try Disksalv, sounds like your harddisk needs error correction and re-validation.  Disksalv can do both provided the partition size is less than 2Gb and the drive is less than 4Gb and your using FFS, FFSIntl, or OFS.

You could make a bootable Workbench disk with Disksalv on it and run it from floppy.  If you harddisk is using scsi.device, you should be able to access it using a standard workbench floppy, can be version 2.0 upwards to 3.1.

Title: Re: Harddisk checksum error/0K free error solving
Post by: djkoelkast on April 06, 2008, 04:21:58 PM

The harddisk itself is 80GB but I only used 998 MB for the first partition, starting at the beginning of the harddisk. I have made no other partitions so far.

I'll try good old DiskSalv, I thought this was only for floppy disks ;-)

Title: Re: Harddisk checksum error/0K free error solving
Post by: djkoelkast on April 06, 2008, 05:04:15 PM

Took a while but it did the trick brilliantly, thanks!