Nuked my darned hard drive.

[Angus]

I seem to have trashed my sys partition (DH0) and probably DH1 too, when I tried to format a partition from within Shapeshifter last night. The partition in question was towards the back end of a 40 gig drive, and it seems that Shapeshifter is not aware of large hard drives and so wrote over the data in the first 4 gigs.  

It shouldn't be a problem as I have a fairly recent Quaterback backup. But in order to sort that out I`ll probably boot from a WB 3.1 floppy, and then reformat the drive and use HDTools and Quarterback to recover my OS3.9 Workbench.

Question:
Will this method miss any special "unseen" hard drive files that OS3.9 needs to access the greater than 4 gigabyte drive etc?

I'm expecting to have to mess about with IDEFix but are there any other issues?

Cheers.


 

[Angus]

Flashlab wrote:
My my, that is really messed up...

Thanks for pointing that out.  

(Also thanks for that prefs file - but no progress)

But back to my original point about, hidden hard drive files? Anybody?

Cheers.

[Angus]

Thanks - I've lost some stuff which is annoying, but all seems to be pretty much sorted.

[Angus]

>Like I told you in a different topic you should use >hardfiles on a partition with SFS.

Yeah, basically I felt I was embracing enough new stuff without really wanting to get into anything else, until I had the emulation side functional. Plus I used Fusion a few years back and it was happy on its own partition, but that was probably a small hard drive.

Anyway, SFS is it fairly straightforward to use?