My data is all gone

[Hyperspeed]

Oh yeah, you're right.

Well if DF0: has boot priority 5, and it's advised that DH0: be boot priority 4 - then CC0: on priority 3 will allow you to leave the SRAM card permanently in the PCMCIA slot without fear of booting off it.

Should your hard disk die it will be there like Superman to haul your ass out of trouble.

:-)

[amigagr]

ta daaah or like super goofy lol:) but it's a good idea:)

[motorollin]

Well I brought my company laptop home complete with floppy drive and did the following:

1. Booted a Workbench floppy.
2. Mounted and formatted PC0:
3. Copied SmartFileSystem from the PC to my CrossDOS floppy
4. Copied SmartFileSystem from my CrossDOS floppy to RAM:
5. Copied SmartFileSystem from RAM: to my OS3.9 Boot Floppy
6. Booted from the OS3.9 Emergency Disk
7. Ran HDToolBox
8. Removed SFS from the backup drive
9. Re-added SFS to the backup drive, making sure the identifier matched the one the partitions were looking for.
10. Saved changes
11. Rebooted

Guess what... the backup drive now boots and my data is all there  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

Thanks all for the suggestions!

--
moto

[amigagr]

yeh we save the world once again  :-)  :-)  :-)
good work moto :-)

-edit-
now, load HDToolbox and save the rdb and a mountlist of the hard drive, just in case... :-)

[amigaoneproductions]

Guess what... the backup drive now boots and my data is all there

Excellent news,  Is your hard drive called Kenny by any chance  "Oh No they killed Kenny",  Of course Kenny comes back to life in the next episode.
 :lol:

[amigagr]

yes it's sounds like a shoap opera :-)

[Boot_WB]

Congratulations!!  Having had a few catastrophes myself with the OS my heart went out to you having to re-install from scratch (yet again).
Since last time, I have a hand-written (on jen-yew-ine paper) list of all the applications, patches etc in the order I installed them.  
Have also just done the same with my new Win2k machine, however that takes about a week to get right, rather than the 2 days with OS3.9. :-)  
Have been thinking about ripping the innards out of the various installation scripts to create a single, all-installing installation script, just in case my backups go toes-up aswell.
I've recently found a copy of Abackup on an amigaformat disk (#42 I believe) which works very well - allows me to back up my workbench and work partitions to .lhas in very little time - it seems far quicker to create backups to the ram disk, then copy the .lha from ram to hdd - I get transfer rates of about 2mb/s through a1200 IDE port: as I don't own a power flyer (and don't have scsi (yet)) it's the fastest I've ever had!

[amigagr]

and what do you do all this lha files after that? how can you be sure that the hard disk won't crash completly and you will loose all the data on all partitions? in my 1200 a have a cdrw connected as slave in the plain ide port and it works fine. it saved me a lot of times from really big adventures:)))

[Hyperspeed]

Phew! Close one...

One of the nastiest things that's ever happened here was when ReOrg3.1 (a disk defragmenter) had trouble right in the middle of a partition, crashed and of course took the block/directory details with it.

I think if you're going to defragment a drive like that you have to remove every single other application, tool or patch and make sure your power-supply is reliable. One mistake with defragging and it can do serious harm that even DiskSalv can't save you from.

Anyone got a UPS here?

[amigagr]

i saw this nightmare once, back in the floppy days, because of  amiback tools, in the middle of an optimize it crashed, and i restore all my progs back, file by file from a mountain of floppys, originals and backups. it take a week and tones of coffee too :-)