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- Path: telepost.no!usenet
- From: ulv1@telepost.no (Arnulf Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help. HDD will not boot
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 19:10:21 GMT
- Organization: TelePost Public Access
- Message-ID: <604.6616T1170T1995@telepost.no>
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- >A friend with an Amiga 500+ cannot boot from his hard disc drive (an
- >120mb GVP) but can from floppy. Once the machine is up he can access
- >the hard drive. He suspects he may have deleted some files in the
- >root directory. He has reinstalled the OS.
- >Anyone have any ideas of possible solutions?
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- Hold down both mousebuttons at boot-time to access the boot-menu.
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- Is the HD listed in the disk-device menu ? Is it bootable ?
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- If not, he will need to make it bootable with a HD-config program.
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- HDTools or GVP's Faaast/Expert-prep springs to mind.
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- Arnulf - A500+/'030/'882 - Amiga - ulv1@telepost.no
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