New HD partitioned and WB installed Ok, but not booting & cannot see in WB

[rammydcfc]

Hi, I gave up after wiping my original 60Mb hd and failing to reinstall WB due to disk errors (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21969)

I've now got hold of a 125Mb laptop disk and have inserted into my A1200.

The hdtoolbox program on my install disk, found and partitioned my disk Ok. I even managed to go through the WB install routine and all files seemed to be copied over ok.

But, when I rebooted the amiga, it didn't boot from the hard disk. When I boot from a Workbench floppy, I cannot see the hd partitions.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks,
Rich

[rammydcfc]

Ok, I've just had another couple of goes...
The HDSetup program seems to run Ok and creates a 8Mb 'Workbench' partition and the remaining space as a partition labelled 'Work'.

At this point the drives appear as icons on workbench and I can browse them. I can even run the install script to install Workbench etc onto the 8Mb partition.

But, as soon as I reboot the A1200, all trace of these partitions (in fact the hard disk in general) seems to disappear.

If I go back into the HDtoolbox program, the partitions still exist on the drive.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there some sort of hard disk recognition problem?

edit - yes the partition was marked as bootable and neither partition showed up in the early boot-up screen.

Thanks,
Rich

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[rammydcfc]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your suggestions, but how does this explain why I can't see the hard disk when booting from a Workbench floppy?

Thanks,
Rich

[rammydcfc]

Oh I see, now I understand.

Is there a list anywhere that contains makes/models of disks to avoid?

Thanks