stephen@hpdml93.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead) (10/18/89)
[ line eater junk food! ] I was playing around in transformer last night and I went to access my hard disk (which is not formatted for MSDOS). Anyway, when I went to reboot my system, it said that my hard disk was "NOT A DOS DISK, UNIT 1". OOOH, NOOO! My first impression was to "install" dos back on to it, but install only works with DF0-3. I tried a Quick FFS format (thinking that this would initialize the AmigaDOS structures on the disk) but it still won't boot. I can boot off a floppy and mount the drive manually, and it works fine. Isn't just the boot track corrupt? I looked at it with diskx, but it looks good to me. What can I do without reformatting the entire drive (it is a 380Mb drive that takes about >5 hours to do a full AmigaDOS format!)? My system: AmigaDOS 1.3 (with 1.3 Kickstart) Amiga 500 w/ 1 Mb RAM Trumpcard 500 SCSI controller two 380 Mb SCSI hard drives two 3.5" floppy drives Any help would be most welcome (I be your slave for life). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stephen Holmstead ...!hplabs!hpdmlge!stephen // Hewlett Packard Disk Memory Division \X/ Amiga Forever! "I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy." -- Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.