10 GB HDD in my A1200 is 'missing' 2 Gigs ???

[marcfrick2112]

Hi, in the process of replacing a dying Maxtor 8.5 GB HDD with an IBM 10.0 GB one, and it's been a nightmare....
Well, I have a working system now, I have partitioned and formatted the drive, but I am missing 2 GB ?? It seems like I have only 8 GB or so to play with. Using OS 3.9..

My full specs. are below:
A1200 Power Tower, OS 3.9 w/ BB 1 and 2, 128MB FAST RAM, P5 1260 / 50Mhz + 1230 SCSI module. 10.0 GB IBM IDE HDD, previously a Maxtor 8.5 GB IDE, 100MB SCSI Zip, 2.1 GB SCSI HDD.

Any Ideas?
 :-?

[davideo]

What Rom have you got in your 1200?

I think you need at least 3.1 to see more than 8GBs.

I've got 40GB in my 1200 and it's seen ok with version 3.1 Rom and OS3.9

Dave G  8-)

[alexh]

Wrong values in HDToolbox when partitioning?

[Caius]

HDToolBox sometimes reads the number of cylinders wrong. Try the fixhddsize program. Find it on Aminet.

[x56h34]

I think his hard drive probably has the old FastFileSystem in its RDB that originally came from OS3.1 or 3.0. He should update his RDB with FastFileSystem from OS3.9 or better yet ProfessionalFileSystem3 or SmartFileSystem.

[AmiBoy]

I have a similar problem too except I only lost about 500MB from my hard drive.

If I can get my 1200 up and running again how do I ensure that I am using the correct FFS in the RDB?

If I am would I be best to then use fixhddsize program?

I wont run the risk of loosing anything would I?

[x56h34]

You need to go to the HDToolBox and upgrade the file system from there. The filesystem will be located in the SYS:L directory. I believe that you need at least OS3.5 in order to obtain a FastFileSystem which would do the trick.

A simple upgrade from one FastFileSystem to a newer version will not make you lose any data. I am not sure about changing different filesystems though...probably you would lose data that way.

[A4000_Mad]

x56h34 wrote:
I am not sure about changing different filesystems though...probably you would lose data that way.

Yes it would appear so. Whenever I have changed from FastFileSystem to PFS3 all data has been lost as the partitions have to be reformatted with the new file system. I can't say for certain, but I would think that upgrading to a later version of FastFileSystem would also cause the data to be lost. You basically need to copy your data to a different partition, format, then copy it back again.