DH0: NDOS - argghh! can I recover/repair?

[gizmomelb]

Hi all,

I've just booted my A1200 this morning and the DH0: partition of my HDD says it is an NDOS partition.  I'm running Quarterback tools to try to repair it, but QBT can only see my DH1: partition.

Can anyone please help me with advice on how to repair the DH0: partition?

Please?!!?

[gizmomelb]

thanks for the advice - after playing around a bit with QBT6 I noticed that it supported drives or devices, so I switched to devices and was able to repair the bootblock of DH0: and get the system working again.

However my DH1: partition is having some problems - it's 90% full (or so workbench claims) but it does have a hell of a lot of files on there, I'm wondering if the FastFileSystem is similar to the IBM File Access Table (FAT) where if you have a lot of files on a drive, the drive can report free space but actually be totally full?  (sorry for the bad description).

Anyways, I've moved some files from DH1: to DH0:, which has more free space.  So hopefully I won't have the file corruption again.

[gizmomelb]

Thanks Noster,

that was exactly what I was trying to say, just not as elegantly or technically correct

[gizmomelb]

CDE_MusiX wrote:
but FFS and FAT are 2 diverse File Systems? i guess are all 16 -bit work and the FAT support hard disk for 2GB max. And, if i use an internal 2.5 IBM Notebook preformatted hard drive, how to prepare and format for use with workbench?

Hmm, I just realised that this might be my problem with partitions being constantly trashed..  I have a 4.6GB laptop HDD installed in my A1200 and I'm using WB 3.1 and FastFileSystem (no patches or anything).

IDH0: and IDH1: are both around 2.3GB in size.

If I re-parition and make each partition around 1.5GB in size - would that solve my problem (I'm unsure if the problem is the partition is >2GB, or the HDD is >4GB).

Should I be running another FileSystem or some patch or something please?  I just want my HDD to stop corrupting!  (I know it's not the drive, I've tested the drive in an IBM using the drivecheck program and there's no bad sectors/blocks/whatever).

Thanks,
Gizmomelb

[gizmomelb]

Many thanks!

That explains everything!