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Offline JessecueTopic starter

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1200 restore help?
« on: June 01, 2011, 03:50:46 AM »
Hi,
I have 2 Amiga's one a 1200 with a HD, the other a 2000 with a add on board and 030  CPU.  I was playing with the 1200 after a few years of no use...it was working fine but my daughter tried to copy something on  the work bench screen and now it won't boot up from the hard drive...Question is what can I try to fix without having to re install work bench?
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Offline Thomas

Re: 1200 restore help?
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2011, 07:53:40 AM »
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what can I try to fix without having to re install work bench?


Find out what your doughter moved where and move it back. For somebody who is a bit familiar with the directory structure of AmigaOS it should be fairly easy to find out what is missing.


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it won't boot up from the hard drive


One hint could be the error message you didn't tell us.


Enter Loadwb into the DOS window, open the icon of your boot partition and make a hardcopy so we can look at it. It's probably the Prefs drawer or the Devs drawer which has been moved away.
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Re: 1200 restore help?
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2011, 08:03:43 AM »
if you have a workbench floppy and directory opus then you can at least boot to your hard drive but the problems is unless you have a backup (which by the way i recommend you do) it will be hard to see what got deleted. Check S, C, L first and then work your way thru to the other directories to see what is missing.
Not booting could be she wiped the S dir or one of the startup-sequences.
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Re: 1200 restore help?
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2011, 08:11:09 AM »
even from the cli try typing in dir dh0: or hd0: (or whatever your bootable hard drive is)
if dir doesn't work try c/dir or dh0:c/dir dh0: and see if s directory is there and then dir s/ (dh0:c/dir dh0:s/ ) and see if you can see startup-seqence, user-startup, ed-startup, Shell-startup if not then you are missing them and that's the reason why it is not booting
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A Chameleon and 1541 II ultimate II
2 x C=64, 2 x C64C, C128 (jiffydos), C128D, 3 x A500 (1 x 030),
A1000, 2 x A2000 (GVP 040 + SCSI combo + indivision), A3000 GVP IV24 & Emplant
3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

Offline JessecueTopic starter

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Re: 1200 restore help?
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2011, 03:30:49 AM »
I got my comPuter boot it up using the workbench install disk
Under shell i get this "unable to open your tool sys:system
/CPI

Wbs startuP drawer is empty
On bOotup with only hard drive all I see is the mouse pointer
I really need help here.   I have disk master on hard drive
Thank you
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Offline Matt_H

Re: 1200 restore help?
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2011, 03:42:46 AM »
It sounds like the System drawer got moved inside another drawer by mistake. Find it, and drag it back to the root of the drive.
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