MigaMan wrote:
I let it sit for over an hour with the original one in.
It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
You should first check if it is really validation or if it's only the HDD light.
Open a shell window and enter
info
This will list all mounted drives. If one of your HDD partitions has a status of "validating", then let it do its work.
If all drives are either read/write or read only or "no disk in drive", then it's not the disk-validator which causes the HDD light to stay lit.
With the disk-validator running you should hear the HDD working and the boot process should need twice as long as usual. Also you cannot write to the validating partition and it shows as 100% full.
Bye,
Thomas
