left shifted screen

[Will-i-am]

I consolidated my A4000D by copying two HDs of stuff onto a single larger HD which was previously Amiga formatted and sold to me from ebay. Took awhile to get the various jumpers and all but finally it was done and I had freed up a plug for a CD drive... which also finally works. (YAY) but in the process I noted that the image on the screen had left shifted about 1/2" so that file lists in Opus lost the first couple of characters.
In some progs I could resize the window and move it to the right to reacquire the edge of the window, but some did not allow that and I just had to fake it. The monitor is a C= 1960 and the OS is 3.1. I tried the Horz phase control and the 'width' toggle but they changed the screen, and not the windows in the screen.
Since I had not changed any settings in consolidating the contents of the machine, merely copied them from one HD to another, what would cause this shift? I may not have gotten all the files moved over if at some point I got confused, but the attempt was made. But still, it is nice to have those first couple of letters of a word, so that I am seeing "Workbench" instead of "rkbench", likewise in reading my startup file it's good to know which lines have a ";" at the begining.

[Will-i-am]

Well, I will work on the above suggestions. I tried the overscan stuff and it did not help. I have fiddled enough with it to get workbench system: partition window looking better and in some cases I just make the window smaller.... the idea that the new drive got it's stuff copied onto the original drive files is upsetting but not impossible. If I got distracted enough to copy right to left instead of left to right in opus it could have happened.

One thing is probably significant: I cannot seem to make the background change in any of the windows. I went into MUI and got it's window to change appearances, but when I go into Prefs and try to change the appearance of the other windows nothing seems to happen. I get the same bland grey background. I suspect that since the original drive was the one in the machine at Atlantis/Philips their original setup was screwy. As I scroll thru the various directories I find Dopus in about three locations, MUI in a couple of locations and numerous directories called "Old" with backups of the 'S' directory. They clearly were not very methodical and probably had only a slight understanding of the Amiga OS. At least that's what it looks like.

[Will-i-am]

Boy I hope not! I've done quite a few on these machines thru the years and by now my install diskcs have seen happier days. The CD drive works okay, so I may just install os 3.9 off the cd. Who knows, that may be the fix! Except for the part about all them progs i have that break under OS 3.9... sigh. Decisions....