Disksalv.......Can it Validate HD's over 4GB?

[leirbag28]

Ok, I rebooted my Amiga while the Harddrive was still loading, causing it to become invalid or unvalidated. it says the HD is FULL at 3.9GB when infact I had only used about 500Mb. I know Disksalv usually fixes this but this HD is a 40GB laptop IDE Harddrive with about 8 partitions:

System
Workbench
Work
Work2
Work3
Work4
Work5
Work6
Work7
Work8

Work2 is the one damaged, So my question is can I use Disksalv without it overwriting other partitions?

Im not even sure my OS3.9 setup fully supports the 40Gb HD although I am using them currently.

How can I validate my Work2 Partition without ruining anything nor any partitions after it?

[leirbag28]

Yeah that I know.........ive done that, but its not doing it this time.

Plus all my other partitions are fine but under Discsalv they all say INVALID except for System, Workbench and Work (HD0, DH0, and HD1)  the rest are read as negative numbers. but for now I am just concerned how to validate Work2?

[leirbag28]

Oh boy thats scary as heck

No the Harddrive light is not doing that but at bootup it keeps loading even though it should hav stopped like at my password screen.

[leirbag28]

Like I said, its not doing that, I already tried it a few times....I am aware that it does repair itself this way, but not this time.................this has happened a few times to me with my previous HD wich was a 2.1GB HD, and I validated it with Discsalv and it worked, but I had to Valitade it twice for it to work ( takes like 8 hours!) so I know it works with HD's or at least partitions that are 2GB or a little less, But I want to fix this 3.9GB partition

How do I do it, isnt there another way besides Disksalv.............im also currently looking at DiscSalv4 wich was on my HD and I didnt even know it, but it doesnt seem to have a Validate option

[leirbag28]

Yeah, I can do that, But I am worried about it overwriting other partitions.

[leirbag28]

Thats not possible unless I have a CD burner, theres too much data already on those other partitions

And this is my CD32/SX32 pro setup we are talking about :-)

[leirbag28]

I believe formatting it will make it delete all the other partitions following it.............I dont want to do that

[leirbag28]

Actually I just noticed that my Work2 Has a Checksum Error! whatever that means and its read as INVALID by DiskSalv

So what should I do?

It amazes me that such an important this as Validating a Partition of over 4GB doesnt exist for the Amiga??? this is astonishing?  Amiga Inc need to work on this............this is utterly unacceptable!

 I have Heard that Installing SCALOS  lets you read and format drives > 4GB?  is this true?  

Then if it is, I would say WB 3.1 with SCALOS installed is better than OS 3.9

[leirbag28]

@zipper

 I am using OS3.9, and yes that usually works.........that waiting also worked in my OS3.1 when I was using that, but the Drive is having a Checksum error........but I guess thats what it says when its not validated. Does TurboVal work on Partitions and HDs bigger than 4GB?

[leirbag28]

Well, I copied the Contents to another HD Partition and formatted Work2..............all is working Normal!  

Thanks Guys!


All Done!

[leirbag28]

Haha, this drive is New..............but I am so glad that I made like 10 partitions............because only that particular partition gets unvalidated and doesnt harm my other contents................i'd hate to validate a partition larger than 2Gb..................takes way too long.