A1200 with new HD but no working floppy

[Jono]

All,

I have recently got a new HD for my Amiga as my old FJ 3Gb drive died.  However when I attempt to boot from my floppy drive, it starts to access the floppy drive and displays message - Not a DOS disk in DF0

I have tried my OS 3.9 Emergency Floppy, plus 2 backup boot floppies, but with no success.

Is there any advise/ideas?

Regds
Jonathan

A1200 - 68060 50Mhz/32Mb/20Gb HD
Mediator 1200/Voodoo 3/SB128/100Mbs Ethernet

[Jono]

Yes ~I have tried with no hdd or the hdd interface in it.

The problem is that the floppy starts to be read and then stops reading.  If I try a game disk that worked fine last week, this just repeatedly reattempts to read the floppy.

Any other suggestions

[Jono]

Well I found the floppy drive+cable worked okay when using this in my brothers A1200.  But it did throw up a few error reading block messages.  Strange because none of these occurred when using the same floppies on my brothers floppy drive.

Anyway, managed to get my HD built to a point whereby I no longer need to use the floppy so can use my Amiga now, and will find a replacement floppy drive.

Many thanks for all the suggestions/help.

Jono