Help - Amiga Hard drive crashed

[Angus]

Hi all,
My Amiga 1200 wouldn't boot up last night, and I saw a hard drive error message come up as it tried. This is a 1200 060 Mediator/Voodoo OS3.9 setup. I'm using a little portable TV to display at the moment.

I booted Quarterback tools from floppy, and although DH0: didn't show as a drive any more, it did as a device, and I selected Analyse and Repair from the options. Quarterback found about 10 or 12 error (I selected repair on each) then I got a software error, with a Reboot or Suspend requester - I tried this several times, always with the same result.

I have QB tools and an old version of HDTools on floppy. Although I can see my DH1 partition, there are several other partitions that I can't see, I guess because they are beyond the 4 gig limit. I would like to recover them if possible, as they are mostly not backed up. I have a quarterbacked backup of DH0 on CD, if I could find a way of formatting DH0 and then restoring from the backup, would the extra partitions reappear - does Quarterback save that info?

Or is there something clever I could do with HDTools.

Not too sure on the best way to proceed.

I have another HD with a bootable workbench on it, so possibly I could make that the master and the damaged HD the slave and try to repair it from that vantage point.

Any suggestions, chaps?

[Angus]

Thanks guys. sorted now - I think.  

I didn`t have any luck with QB Tools or Disksalv  - I managed to get a CD up and running from floppy and then restor a Quarterbacked image on to DH0 - at this point all the other partitions returned.

Hopefully, she is fixed.  

[Angus]

rodney37 wrote:
This can be caused by several occurrences such as:
- resetting your Amiga during disk activity
- a sudden power loss during disk activity
- other sudden interruptions of disk activity

I read that you got your data back which is really great. I just want to give some extra general info about this subject, also for others who read this thread.  :-)

Thanks Rodney, nice one.

And yes, I was investigating a software problem somebody was having and I launched a mysterious exe file to see if I could help. This caused the system to freeze, but stupidly I'd done this while I had an e-mail reply to the guy still open.    

At least it was in a good cause.