Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo

[Boot_WB]

@RosedreamJ

You must feel awful, and you have my sympathies.

Where in the world are you - perhaps there is someone on this forum who would volunteer to take a look at it for you.
Amiga folk are, in my experience, generous and happy to help out.

Regards



Rich

[Boot_WB]

Amiga folk are, in my experience, generous and happy to help out.

James wrote:
HAHAHAHAHAAH... priceless.

With some exceptions  :roll:

[Boot_WB]

By the way, when people keep referring to Aminet, they mean a website which hosts shedloads of free software and other stuff for amigas.

www.aminet.net

There are several mirrors, but this site has a nice gui which allowas (reasonably) straightforward searches.

I wouldn't try browsing for wahat you want, just searching.  

If you find a program you want it will probably be archived in .lha format (analogous to .zip, .rar, .gz).

Depending which version of the OS you have installed, it may be possible to just double click on the archive to unpack it.  Chances are your a3000 has an older version of the OS though and you may have to do it through the command line interface (CLI).

Hope you manage to get it sorted.



Rich

[Boot_WB]

Just a thought, but rather than messing around with creating partitions, or overwriting the old (partly formatted) partition to restore the data from the archive you could try the following.

1) unarchive the latest backup to a directory on an existing partition (for example "DH2:mydirectory").
2) type into the command line "assign main: dh2:mydirectory"

This fools the computer into thinking that there is a drive called "main". When you call anything on the "main" drive (for example "execute main:anydirectoryname/myexampleprogram" the amiga OS will look for it in "DH2:mydirectory/anydirectoryname/myexampleprogram"

If you manage to unpack your archived data this will at least let you test that everything is present and in the right place without you having to create partitions, format hard drives, etc

Regarding your comments on having to recreate the directory structure - any decent archiving program will have preserved this within the packed file. You should just have to unpack the archive and it will create all the directories etc for you.

Best of luck



Rich