Ouch, just lost my HD contents....

[bazzza1975]

While trying to increase my c: partition, seeing it was only 10mb, its wiped my worbench,

I have the 4 workbench disks....

How do i reinstall the hd???

[bazzza1975]

Thought i had solved the problem by copying the worbench to the HD,now though when i reboot i get the 3.0 amiga rom screen, where it asks for a floppy. It doesn't load the workbench.,..





Anyone??

[r0jaws]

How exactly and with what tool were you resizing your partition?

If you mess about with the partition table you could have made a bit of a mess.

If you can boot to CLI try;

"install dh0:" minus the quotes.

That should make your Hard drive bootable, you could be lucky.

[musojon74]

I think you could do with using the INstall floppy if you have it, which sets everything up ok.

The reason it doesn't boot though, is that you need to install the bootsector - boot from your floppy again, and type "install dh0" (or whatever your hdd is called. That should get it bootable if all the wb files are on there.

--edit-- no, not fast enough!!!

[bazzza1975]

Hi,

I used the HD toolbox to change the size, after that when it rebooted it said hd0 is not a dos disk, so i entered wb3.0 and booted it, then in the workbench formated it, and copied all files from the wb3.0 floppy to the hd...

i have 4 disks, worbench, extra, storage and fonts

[musojon74]

Cool - OK so you need to boot from wb floppy, right click, go execute command, get a cli up, and type install hd0, and you should be bootable.

install dh0: (sorry forgot colon)

[bazzza1975]

When i do that and enter a CLI, it says ram disk: Should i be here..
should i not go to the floppy first?, if so, whats it called not a:

Another thing my ram disk was 9mb, now when i open the ramdisk it says "100% full, 0k free, 11k in use".

I made the whole 100mb one partition, didn't know it would affect ramdisk size,,,

my hd is callled hd0:

so i type, where it now says ram disk: install hd0?

thanks for the help so far

if i goto df0:install HD0

it comes back with "object is not of required type"

[musojon74]

OK - answers:

- ram disk - doesn't matter that you are here, because when you type commands, the amiga looks in your boot drive's c: folder, so the command will be found. also, you tell it which bootsector to write (hd0) so no, don't worry.
- ram disk is dynamic - it fills to the space available, so it always says 100% full. no problems.
- yes, bring up your cli, and type the command "install hd0:" (without quotes, it's important to get the : in at the end) doesn't matter that it says ram disk: before.

no probs

[bazzza1975]

Tried fom ram disk, got the same error, "object is not of required type"

install failed


so tried df0:

Tried it again.... typed df0:

then it says workbench3.0:>

there i type install hd0:

still comes back with

"object is not of required type"

install failed,

[musojon74]

OK, I do apologize, install only appears to install floppies - I was sure it did hdd's too?! Sorry about that. Can anyone else help here?

I assume you've not got the install disk and extras, locale, storage etc lying around...

[bazzza1975]

I found the install, and locale disks so its installing.......

[bazzza1975]

Thing is, im having to swap disks forward and back about a thousand times,,,, very very annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[musojon74]

It's fun! Come on, this is retro! You'll soon be done!

[musojon74]

And actually, my hdd was being rather dodgy earlier, kept not starting up correctly, so I may soon be in the same boat! Hoping I can pull a backup off it before it fails...

[r0jaws]

The install hd0: command is for floppies but will work for your Hard Drive (I used this technique 2 days ago)

Just ignore the errors it throws up, you should be able to reboot no problem.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by r0jaws

The install hd0: command is for floppies but will work for your Hard Drive (I used this technique 2 days ago)

Just ignore the errors it throws up, you should be able to reboot no problem.

Hmm..

Install can't be used for hard drives. It simply can't work. (and it won't touch the partition table anyway even if it worked..)

[rkauer]

AFAIR, just "tick" the "bootable" option in HDToolBox does the trick.

[bazzza1975]

Well, everything was installed to HD0: without any errors... thing is when i reboot it doesnt go any futher than a amiga dos shell screen, even if i boot from the install floppy or the workbench floppy. The only way i can get anywhere is to enter the adftransfer disk that i got with my pcmica-cfcard kit, seeing this floppy is bootable, then when this loads into the workbench screen i can accces HD0:, and yes ive checked with the HDtoolbox that it is selected as bootable. Ive tried reformatting the HD again, but still no result..
Anyone??

[twizzle]

hi baz
i have the answer to your problem, check your pm

[bazzza1975]

Cheers Twizzle