Fast ATA prob or motherboard?

[Gav]

Hi
To cut this story short my hard drive won't boot while plugged in to my fast ata..I get a message very fast upon switching the machine on which is something along the lines of "Device HD1 is not a dos disk" or something.
I also am unable to get to the fast ata prefs menu from holding LMB..

So after this i tried using a 2.5-3.5 HD adaptor and with that being used the amiga just goes to the disc animation screen SUPER fast..
If i remove the hard drive and boot the amiga it once again boots to the disc anim waaaaay to fast..

So as of yet i have not removed the fast ata mainly because i hate removing fragile roms but i will do so tomorrow as a last resort..

But anyways what do some of you think??Motherboard or Fast ATA??..Well whichever it is it has been a very annoying problem for sometime just after i got my BPPC card..

So the past few months i have had no use out of my amiga which is a shame really.. :cry:

[Gav]

The drive and fast ata i have had for a few years now so the drive has OS3.9 aswell as ata prefs installed.
It had locked up one time and when it rebooted i was greeted to the dos message i wrote above...

The drive is a 30 gig and was all working with fine with the Fast ata until the lock up..Before that i was also having boot problems with my cd drive,the amiga wouldn't boot unless i removed the cd drive..

Perhaps that was the start of a dying fast ata?

[Gav]

Yeah i have removed the board a number of times as thats what i thought the cause might of been at first but obviously not.

[Gav]

Seems my boot partition is at fault,any ideas on what i can do to solve this or is it gonna require a re install? :-o

[Gav]

I just used whatever the standard file system os3.9 installs?Never changed it,although this is not the first time this has happend  :pissed: