Hi
This may sound extreme... But with the floppy boot can you copy the whole of any partition to another partition. ie the entire content of data from one to another. If so do so and format that partition then copy back. You must not change the partition sizes. Do the same with each without switching the machine off. You may find you cure this.
What I do with larger than 4GB drives is to only format the drive to the 4GB limit and never use the remainder above the 4GB. I do have larger than 4GB running on all my Amigas on OS3 without problem. Sadly I have had drives that play up like this. They get confused. I just copy that partition over to another and format. Losing all of them is very careless :-)
See how you get on... Don`t switch the machine off while you are doing the above though...
I call it my ' silly boot ' process. Dunno why. Rebuilding a harddrive while the machine stays on. A great Amiga trick.
Have you rescanned the drives without saving using the HDToolbox on the floppy disk to see what it says about the drives and their size. Sometimes it kick starts the drive again. Have fun.
PS Your hard drive light works I hope .. You haven`t got a drive trying to validate itself. Can take an age. Probably a checksum on your boot drive. Its that one that I would copy first... Little trick is always to keep a copy of your Workbench on another drive just in case.
Also check your power supply to the hard drive and ribbon. An intermittant power fault on the drive can cause the same problems. I would also start looking for another 4GB drive to be honest and be prepared. You can stick the two piggy back and copy your stuff over... Formatting over the data without copying should really be your last resort. If you can see the stuff with a floppy, then hook up another drive and copy the stuff over. Format under the 4GB limit and reuse...
Whats WHDLoad ? Sorry.
scuzz
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