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Re: can someone fix my amiga HD ?
« on: March 24, 2011, 01:57:52 AM »
Quote from: rednova;624140
Hi:

@ Thomas
thank you for helping me,
I am just thinking, instead of hassling with the WB reinstall,
why not just keep The WB partition intact ( no reformat or reinstall )
and just boot w/o start up sequence, 'load wb' command
and just use amiga like that.
Forever keep booting w/o start up sequence.
What do you think ?

Rednova

PS: Actually, I am not even sure if I was attacked by the Virus,
I just think it might but it might be not either, maybe something
happened with the startup sequence.

I'm afraid that just using the loadwb command will leave you with a VERY limited workbench, most of the stuff in the startup-sequence file are actually needed for a functional workbench.

Retro 71 mentiones the startup-sequence, but there are also two other possible roots to you problems, and they are the user-startup file and the contents of the WBStartup drawer.

If not formatting & reinstalling worbench is an option, the best course of action is to start eliminating things one by one. You can start with the WBStartup drawer, rename it to something else (like -WBStartup), this is so that the system can't find it upon booting. For the user-startup file, you can either rename it as well, or you can disable it in the startup-sequence by inserting a semi-colon at the beginning of the "Execute S:user-startup" line like this:

;Execute S:user-startup

Then save the startup-sequence and try to reboot.