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5Gb HDD in A1200, not validated?
« on: March 26, 2006, 03:07:24 PM »
Hello,

Im trying to format an old Fuji 5gig hard drive in my desktop A1200. Im using kickstart 3.1 and the install disk of workbench 3.1.

I can partition the drive using HDToolBox from the disk into a 30 meg partition for "Workbench", a 3.9 gig partition for "Work", and the rest as a third partition since it doesnt seem to like displaying anything over 4 gig.

So this is fine, I press "Save Changes to Drive" then reboot. But then when I run "HD Setup" from the 3.1 install disk, it always comes up as "HD1 not a valid DOS disk". If I try formatting this partition using the standard workbench "Icons>Format Disk", it then says "Drive is not validated".

Ive tried lots of different partitions with different sizes but nothing seems to work...can anyone help me at this point please?

Many thanks indeed.
Seb