Not booting

[sy278]

Hi Guys,

I have recently dug out my old A500 and bought an A1200 from ebay. Tonight I decided to set them up and to my horror none of them will run my disks.

One or two of them boot so far on the 500 then I get disk errors, the 1200 acknowledges the disc then immediately returns to the kickstart screen. So on the 1200 I connected my old exteral drive and set the system to boot from DF1, it went a little further this time.

So guys would you agree it sounds like the disks are knacked, or do you think its the drives?

If it is the discs, does any one have any suggestions on how I can recover all my software? I thought if I could get in to workbench then I could try using diskdoctor to try and repair the discs, but even my workbench disks have errors about half way through loading on the 500.

PS the drives are very squeaky on some disks but sound ok on others.

[sy278]

OK Thanks,I'm assuming that DiskSalv is an amiga program, but how do I get it onto the Amiga?

[sy278]

Would it be possible to format and setup workbench on a CF card using the IDE/CF interface in WinUAE and copy an ADF version of the WB disks onto the card then load the CF into the 1200 to get into WB and then extract the ADF's so it recreate the floppy disks?

[sy278]

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Anyone???