A1200 new hard disk

[werthers93]

I am trying to install a 3 gig old laptop hard drive on my A1200 using the HD toolbox in workbench 3.1. When setting up the drive (it reads it as a 549mb disk) I cannot manage to save the changes to the disk and get the message "error -3 on write".

does anyone have an answer to this?

[werthers93]

I've tried to set it up numorous times, the old setups are there and wont delete. Everytime I setup a new one it wont low level format or save.

[werthers93]

I've tried to set it up numorous times, the old setups are there and wont delete. Everytime I setup a new one it wont low level format or save.

[werthers93]

It verifies the cylinders and heads correctly and even displays the correct manufacturing name (IBM) but I cannot save the changes to the drive or low-level format.

I'm starting to think the drive is faulty but it verifies no bad sectors. It says the interface is SCSI but its definately an IDE Drive.

there must be something I'm doing wrong. bugger!

[werthers93]

yeah all I get it "sorry this hard drive cannot be partitioned".

i'm trying to stay calm but Ive got no way of checking if the drives faulty as I only have a desktop pc.

[werthers93]

ta mate, I bought from a second hand dealer but hopefully i can exchange it.

tossers.