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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Does Install erase a disk?
« Last post by Michele31415 on September 09, 2021, 08:33:40 PM »In attempting to restore my hard disk fs3: from a USB stick to the SCSI2HD on my A2000, it somehow became unbootable. I can still boot from floppy and the hard disk appears on the WB 3.1 screen and I can see all the restored files there but it won't boot.
So if I say "install fs3:" will that erase all the files I copied from the USB stick? I'm asking because it took over two hours to do the copy the first time, mostly because every 10 files or so I got a pop-up saying "bad sector" on the USB stick (but then it worked fine after selecting Retry). I'd rather not have to go through that again. It would be nice if Install wrote a boot block and nothing else.
So if I say "install fs3:" will that erase all the files I copied from the USB stick? I'm asking because it took over two hours to do the copy the first time, mostly because every 10 files or so I got a pop-up saying "bad sector" on the USB stick (but then it worked fine after selecting Retry). I'd rather not have to go through that again. It would be nice if Install wrote a boot block and nothing else.
