i did have an A4000T PPC blah blah blah, and before i sold it, i backed up all my files to an IDE drive, (FFS boot partiton 100Mb, FFS main partition 4.8Gb)
put drive (OS 3.5) into A1200 (3.0 roms) reloaded 3.0 OS on the the system partition.
Well, theres your problem; You have a 4.8Gb partition located 100Mb in from the start of the disk. Kickstart 3.0 has trouble with disks larger than 4Gb, and partitions larger than 2Gb, without special patches installed..
started having issues and disk errors with the main partition (4.8Gb size). tried to run various disk tools to get some of the directory structure back
Eeeek! :-o The disk tools would probably have tried to access the disk with with the wrong parameters due to the size of the partition, and actually corrupted the disk.. :-(
ended up running quarterback tools.
I don't think (though I don't know for certain) that quarterback supports >4Gb drives and >2Gb partitions either...
didn't even show partitions in the early startup menu.
booted off of floppy. no hard disk partitions. ran hdtoolbox. disk appeared fine, went into the partion window and it was showing me the default new disk layout. two partions of roughly equal size.
Sounds like your RDB was knackered...
have i lost everything? my drawings? my pin out listings? my signal traces? all my bought and paid for shareware enabler keys for Mui, SoftCinema, IDEfix, etc? all my apps?
Ehmm... it sounds like it to me...
is there anything i can do?
I'm not sure. Maybe install some sort of NSD device patch, or get an OS3.9 Amiga, and then use RDB Salv to try and re-create the original partition information, and PREY that quarterback didn't kill the partition. I wouldn't expect it to work, though.
have given up with Amiga. no more 10hour disk surface scans, no more mangled directory structures to be put back together by hand,
i've just run out of patience.
:-(
Oh man... I really feel for you.. I've had a couple of 'scares' in my time, but fortunately managed to salvage nearly all of my stuff in both cases, although I did lose some source code that I spent many, many hours on...
