Author Topic: reinstall HD? (Read 2287 times)

frl9lk · « **on:** May 19, 2009, 12:37:15 AM »

My A4000/40 doesn't recognize its HD, I think. It will boot to a floppy or go directly to a WB screen that must be in ROM (3.1). If I reinstall the HD -- which had five partitions (and had been working fine for more than a year) -- will I only only lose the former root directory or will the whole thing get wiped?

I reseated _everything_ and swapped the memory... any thoughts as to cause?

frl9lk · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2009, 11:58:06 PM »

The setup was this: a 4-6G internal drive partitioned to five, two external 2G drives each partitioned to two. Booting from floppy, I see all my external SCSI stuff (controller is a Fastlane with .device in rom). I reinstalled OS 3.1, but HDsetup and toolbox only see a 14 meg drive (perhaps my original root partition). At this point I'm ready to do a low level format in order to try to get back the full capacity (since it looks like I'm in for a major re-build no matter what) but I'm not being allowed -- clicking "continue" goes nowhere. Any suggestions other than chucking the whole thing out the window?

frl9lk · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2009, 01:57:26 PM »

Thanks for all the good information. As I recollect, I had used check4gb originally. What are the patches I shouhld add? Thanks.

frl9lk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2009, 12:27:28 AM »

FFSTD64 wanted to patch either ffs 40.1 - 40.4. The version I had in was 43_20.

Anyway, I decided to "play safe" and install OS3.5. The prelim install was fine, on the reboot something went... Now I have the purple install screen, but it won't recognize an Install floppy. I've walked away for the moment.

I have to believe it's in the hardware... software wouldn't be that intermittent(?). Trash or repair?