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Help with INVALID DISK problems

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From: William Douglas Gullett
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1989 11:27
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My brother and I both have AMIGA 1000s.  His is 512, 2 drive, vanilla system.
He has three almost new games that have died.  The error says that the disk
is invalid for each one.  He swears that he always waits for the light to
go off before turning the machine off (except for "Test Drive", it hung and
the drive light stayed on continuously for a long period of time, so he turned
the machine off).  The other two seemed to be "BAD" for no apparent reason.
They supposedly ran fine one day and and had the problem the next.

Is there some way to fix them?  I don't think that he has a VIRUS that is
messing up the boot blocks because he loads these games from a COLD
machine each time (can you say take over the machine??).  Are games
copy protected in such a way that they are easily corrupted?  Three games
bad in a very short time seems to be a little strange to me.


			thanks in advance,
			Doug Gullett
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From: wdg@ecsvax.UUCP (William Douglas Gullett)
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Subject: Help with INVALID DISK problems
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Date: 21 Jun 89 11:27:26 GMT
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