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

[Vincent]

Why not back up the stuff and reformat the partition?  Reformatting will make the drive validated and it will create a new volume bitmap.

Seems like the easiest thing to do if DiskSalv is an uncertainty.

:-)

[Vincent]

Maybe running QuarterBackTools might be an idea?

I'm not sure if it will work above the 4GB limit (ASK SOMEONE before using it ;-) ) but if your partition is having checksum errors part of the QBTools program can check for bad blocks, this in turn will rewrite the volume bitmap which in turn will make your hd valid.

I can't check QBTools on my setup as I'm using SFS (I have a spare partition set aside for testing but it's gradually became full with me just dumping stuff looking for space ;-) ).

[Vincent]

Piru wrote:
QuarterBackTools doesn't work with >4GB partitions.

I thought so... I did wonder why it hadn't been mentioned yet :-)

QBTools has saved my ass many a time, pity it doesn't work >4GB.

[Vincent]

Keep an eye on it, if it starts showing checksum errors again the drive might be eroding and you'll need a new one.

Hopefully not though :-)