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- From: slider@ccnet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help. HDD will not boot
- Date: 13 Feb 1996 13:11:16 GMT
- Organization: Jay Miner........Father of great things and a true engineering visionary...he is sorely missed around the world
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- -> Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk> writes:
- ->
- -> In article <4fl6jc$70p@soap.news.pipex.net> gp_mitchell@dial.pipex.com (Gary P. Mitchell) writes:
- -> > I need help with the following problem.
- -> >
- -> > 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?
- -> >
- -> I used to use an old A590 and had to set dip switches to get it autoboot
- -> (under KS1.3), if that's any help?
- ->
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- ->>>>
- Well most likely some program or he, redid the RDB block and made the drive non bootable.
- Use HDTOOLBOX (warning after making a full backup) and make sure that the drives partitions
- well at least DH0: is set to boot and all others are set to noboot but set to Automount
- laterzzzz.
- James Vigliotti
- slider@ccnet.com
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