"Disk is not validated" error message

[Buleste]

When i say HDD i mean Hard Disk Drive. Sorry about that. I'm not 100% about the technical details but FFS has a built in safety feature that basically checks the structure of the Hard Disk. A little like scandisk on the PC. Basically the workbech tries to repair the structure. Whilst this is going on the disk is in a read only state.

I know someone will come along and tell me i'm talking crap but thats how i think it works.

[Teho]

If that just happened out of the blue then you might want to check your disks for viruses. There was a particularily nasty virus called the Saddam virus back in the day which spread like wildfire among unprotected disks and broke the disk-validator on them. The disk-validator is in the L drawer on the disk by the way, and one common sign that a virus had destroyed it was that it often got renamed to <<<saddam>>> or something. But not always, it could look normal and still be infected.

I remember this thing making a mess of my floppy collection back then, until I could get hold of a virus scanner and go over my entire collection with it. Which took days. Nasty business.

[Tiago]

Teho:

It could be a virus but look:
I just reboot in winuae with workbench 3.1 in floppy and the amigasys3aga.sys config and i had the usb hd3.5 (empty) so, where is the virus? Amigasys3 witch i download? Workench3.1main.adf?

[Buleste]

Teho:

It could be a virus but look:
I just reboot in winuae with workbench 3.1 in floppy and the amigasys3aga.sys config and i had the usb hd3.5 (empty) so, where is the virus? Amigasys3 witch i download? Workench3.1main.adf?

So your hard drive is completely empty? Try starting off with the Hard drive named sytem. Also what size is the hard drive and what size are the partitions if it is greater than 4GB? Remember WB3.1 will not be able to handle large hard drives and partitions.

[Harrison]

All virii are still floating around out there somewhere waiting for some unsuspecting person to be infected again.

However as you are working from scratch with an empty HD I'm wondering if you problem is an HD issue? Have you done a full disk scan of the HD to check it is OK and not faulty? To scan the disk I recommend using the Hirens Boot CD as it contains all the tools you will need.

[Tiago]

The 2.5 usb HD was not empty but i formated him with WB...
So i guess there are no virus.....
the amigasys3aga config, i guess doens't have virus to
the wb3.1maindisk.adf .... do you think it could have a virus?....

i will try Disksalv and Hirens Boot CD

Thanks guys!

[Buleste]

Personally i doubt there is a virus as i don't think there will be any left about for the Ami. How large is the Hard drive in GB?

[Tiago]

I am not using my Amiga 2.5 HD (4gb) am i using a old 400 mb 2.5 Hd to test amigasys3aga. If it work well then i will use the 4gb.

[Harrison]

I remember that Saddam virus too. Luckily for me I kept all of my floppies write protected unless I needed to write something to them then I would just unprotected them during that time and then switch them back. Also I tended to boot directly from floppies where possible rather than boot to WB first.

But I do remember a couple of the magazines accidentally "included" it on their cover disks, and the following month their next coverdisks carried a virus removal program specifically created for them that repaired the original cover disks.

This raises an interesting question. Amiga Disk preservation projects are looking to preserve disks as original unaltered images. Should they therefore try to preserve the one with the virus still present?

[Tiago]

Isn't that strange.... the same virus after 15 years...