I dont think it was related to the validation. If it was, it was not the validating, as much as the I/O activity going on when the disk failed. All...

Sorry to hear that DW could not repair your project! Yes, it is possible the bad drive hung your system, at least it is a plausible theory. Si...

UPDATE: Ran Disk Warrior and rebuild the directory structure which resulted in file and project loss. I'm not sure why the Validate command locked up...