brenes@sky.COM (Erasmo Brenes) (07/13/87)
I need help!. I have an Atari 1040 with a 20 Meg Hard Disk from Atari (SH204) which, after 6 months of never giving me trouble, decided to stop working. The crash happenend on a normal booting procedure ( I still boot from the floppy that came with Atari Hard disk). The computer booted into low resolution and did not show the 4 5Mb logical partitions I had. After several attempts to reboot the machine I realized that I had lost all of my recently developed software (i.e. a Midi sequencer with real-time capture plus several songs I had played), and that the only thing I had to do was to reformat the hard disk and so forth. The problem is that I can not run the Atari format program or for that matter anything else while the hard disk is on. I tried booting the system from a floppy with a booting sector so that I could have the hard disk on and thus run the Atari format program, but as soon as I try to reformat, or re-partition the hard disk, I get a TOS error #35 and from then on the system is useless since I can't read the floppy disk either. If anyone out there has some info as to what I can do to get the hard disk back on running, I will very much appreciate it.