Drive not installed but has software on it

[Gav]

Well lots of people on here will know of my problems with teh Ata3 software for the powerflyer.Well when i used the new software most of my partitions vanish but in HD toolbox if i click then it tells me they are not installed and doing so will destroy any data if is installed of another computer or Os.So since it was installed on the last software if i did click install would it detroy the data? i really cant lose it so i need to know..
Thanks in advance....

[Gav]

But why do you think the problem is?When i replace the old Ata3.driver then all my partitions come back....

[Gav]

Hi
Well thats just it i mean ive been in touch with elbox a lot and all started with my zip drive not working.So they gave me the latest software and it never worked and recently they gave me and unreleased 8.3 beta.So the only problem is that with my zip never working on my amiga since ive owned it then i have no other way of back up all the software i have.Elbox recently  asked me to do a readtest,drivespeed and medconfig report and i did all three and sent it to them and they havent sent me a reply yet for two days.They have no idea why my zip drive isnt working either.so i dunno really its just very annoying because i feel pretty stuffed at the moment.
cheers for the help....

[Gav]

Hi
Well the split option stays the same with the new and old driver but as for the drive it works perfect in my pc and when i did the readtest/drivespeed it read my zip drive.
It is so confusing and its just a shame i dont have my zip working as id be able to backup those partitions and not have any fear of losing data.
 

[Gav]

Well maybe you should take that up with elbox because according to them and lots of other ppl on this board you only need a mountlist if you are using pc formatted zip disk.so since i am not interested in swaping data elbox said the Powerflyer should automaticly mount the zip drive.What i mean by working is that the powerflyer tells me the zip drive is connected but no icon appears on screen.Yes but if you formatt using hd toolbox you cannot hot swap disks as they say...
I wasnt expecting no plug and play magic esp since ive already tried stupid mountlist over and over and guess what? ypu nothing happens.Ive had my drive working through HD toolbox which is crap since you cant change disks until you switch off your machine and insert one before boot.

[Gav]

Yeah well here is the mail i got from elbox on that subject so its all here for you all to see... I mean i would of thought a mountlist to since you need one for a cd drive...


MAIL from me to elbox.....


Well i only want to use the zip discs on my amiga
really so im not interested in cross dos.So i place
the zip dos driver in my devs/dos drivers draw and have the unit=6 but i dont see any icon or nothing.
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If you want ZIP diskette with FFS you do not need to put any mountlist in your Devs:Dosdriver drawer.ATA3.driver should recognized your drive under trackdisk.device automaticaly.

[Gav]

Hi
Well the reason why it said unit 6 was because at first they just though i was going to use a mountlist for pc formatted zips in which case i believe it would be named unit 6.
Well elbox told me to name it unit 6 so i imagine it would be then..Im gonna read what you said again about the icon and see where that takes me..
Cheers for the replys..

[Gav]

Ok last night i did a pio 4 test for elbox as they had asked me to do so and i saved in that mode and all was fine.Today i switched my amiga on and it said that os3.9 had a checksum error on disk block ****..

So i tried to reset and then that was it there was just no life in it booting at all other than a message telling me os3.9 has error on block blah blah blah.But that was in its native screen mode so i had to plug a composite in to my tv to see that message.Well after slaving my drive to another i had tried just about anything to get in to it but i couldnt.


So in the end i just gave in and formatted the now trashed 3.9 partition and re installed 3.9.
So i then installed the older power flyer software and lucky for me all of my partitions came on as i though i may have los t them.So with this now being a fresh install i thought it might now work with the new driver but when i replaced teh old with new the same thing happend and i lost the partitions again.

This really sucks big time esp since i just cant back my data up as that would make it a lot easier to mess around with.
Cheers