03 June 2003, 23:24 | #1 |
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Read/Write error?
I just recived a game I bought online, but it says there is a "read/write error".
I guess that means it dosnt work? Or is there anything I can try to possibly make it work? I would really like to know before I'm sending it back. Thanks. |
03 June 2003, 23:49 | #2 |
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I'm afraid it's knackered! Sometimes you can keep pressing on Retry and it eventually works but that's rare.
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03 June 2003, 23:59 | #3 |
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Is the disk in "regular" AmigaDOS format or NDOS?
In the first case, it could even be the SADDAM virus. If SADDAM is on one of your disks, and it's removed by e. g. REPLACING the hacked Disk-Validator (DV) by one from an original Workbench disk, this disk will show a read-write error afterwards! For, if hacked DV is not present, ColdCapture vector isn't altered. And this malicious virus DOES check if the CC vector is actually altered, and if yes, your disk will be read without problems! Reason: a couple of blocks on the infected disk are ENCODED by the virus routine, and will only decode either by manual re-decoding or the built-in decoder in the virus routine! |
04 June 2003, 00:41 | #4 |
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Yeah, that was what I expected
andreas: I'm sorry I don't really understand much of that. I just use it to play games on, so I don't really know what all those things are But Thanks |
04 June 2003, 04:08 | #5 |
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The simplest thing would be for you to transfer the disk to an ADF file and upload it to the zone for someone more knowledgable to check.
However if you first tell us what game it is we (collectively) might know if it's rare/broken etc... Basically it's most likely a knackered disk or a virus has infected it. |
04 June 2003, 16:28 | #6 |
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It's Turbo.
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04 June 2003, 17:24 | #7 |
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I take it that your drive works with your other games? Read/write errors can also indicate misaligned heads in the disk drive itself, or just a knackered disk drive.
It's also possible that the game was magnetically scanned whilst in the post (in the old days, people used to write "Magnetic media - do not X-ray" on envelopes containing disks) which has scrambled it. This isn't much consolation to you, but it does mean that the disk may have been working before it left the seller's hands. You could always download a disk image of the game and write it back onto the original floppy. |
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04 June 2003, 23:23 | #9 |
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There are no problems with most of my other games, so I would guess it's the disk.
Would you suggest I get the seller to write the X-Ray thing the next time I buy somthing online? How is it these days? Also the seller admitted that they didnt test the games before sending them out, so it could be anything. I would make it into an ADF file but would need some one to tell me how. I may not have the right equipment though. Thanks. |
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