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?

[AF-Domains.net]

Usually if you leave the amiga for a few minutes it will normally solve the validation error automatically.

[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?

[AF-Domains.net]

Disksalv can revalidate partitions on hard drives over 4GB but for some reason ends up wiping most of the data from that certain partition.

Using disksalv to revalidate the partition is not recommended.

Is the HD LED constantly on or flickering occasionally?

[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.

[AF-Domains.net]

If the hard drive keeps loading then the system is still attempting to validate the partition.

If you were to leave the amiga sitting for about 5-10 mintues then it should solve the problem by itself.

[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

[AF-Domains.net]

Try backing up the partition that needs validating first then running disksalv on the repair option.

If disksalv does end up wiping the partition then atleast you will have a backup to restore.

[leirbag28]

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

[AF-Domains.net]

If that is the case then it would be best to back them all up just in case.

[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 :-)

[AF-Domains.net]

The only other option is to look for another program that can scan or validate drives that are 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.

:-)

[leirbag28]

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

[AmiGR]

You should wait until all disk activity STOPS. Only then can you be sure that the partition couldn't be validated. It takes ages but you HAVE to wait for ALL disk activity to stop. I encourage you to boot without startup-sequence and leave it work. A partition will only fail to validate if there are errors in the filesystem or the disk itself. In that case, backup immediately:-)