XUUM24@PRIME-A.CENTRAL-SERVICES.UMIST.AC.UK (Mr. Stephen Culshaw) (03/23/90)
HELP !!!!! My hard disk has decided to pack up. When I booted it up, it would go through the normal sequence until it came to clear to the desktop. Instead a lot of rubbish appeared on the screen, along with bombs, and the machine reset to start going through the boot sequence again. I had luckily backed up very recently so I thought I'd reformat the drive. When I did this the hard disk utility reported a 'FORMAT ERROR', so now the disk does work. I phoned a couple of repair companies and none were very helpful - mostly said 'Its f***ed - buy a new one'. One of them said something about it needed 'Low level reformatting' and that would have to be carried out on an Amiga, taking a lot of time and costing a lot of money - why not buy a new one. Can anyone out there sent me a program which can do this 'low level reformat' without having to pay lots of money - difficult as I don't have it. This has really screwed me up - you don't realise how dependent upon the hard disk you become until it isn't there. Thanks in advance Steve C. A poor student desperately in need of help PS. I should have said - the drive is a Triangle 20MB AT/HD20 and the software I tried was the Triangle hard disk utilities.