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- From: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 Hard Drive Problems...
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 16:28:14 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe
- Message-ID: <4hpn6u$j5t@news.uit.no>
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- Gene Heskett (gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com) wrote:
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- : BSI> Thanks to the help of some people here on the net, about three
- : BSI> months ago, I tried installing a 210M IBM 2.5" drive into my
- : BSI> 1200.
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- : BSI> If I use the Install disk, everything runs correctly. The drive
- : BSI> formats, and I can move files around on the drives, run files
- : BSI> from them, etc...
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- : BSI> But upon next reboot, whether it is a soft restart, or a hard
- : BSI> (power lost) restart, the hard drive vanishes... With no trace.
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- : This is gonna sound crazy, but the next time you go thru that
- : proceedure, do not do a full format, do a "dos quick" instead. I went
- : around that apple tree 6 times before I thought to myself, "this
- : things been formatted enough", and used the quick option. The drive
- : has been there on every powerup since.
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