Umbelievable problems Installing on HD WB3.1

[Daniele]

Hi fellows,

I got very desperated, not only I could not format my HD
>4GB but now even if I try to use an 80MB HD
In the past always went fine when I installed WB3.1 on my A1200HD Blizzard030.But now nuttin works anymore!!!!


I am reapinting the HD Installation on Workbench 3.1 on my
HD and happens always the same things:

at 12% of intsallation when it says: copying important files show this window : Sorry an error occurred!

COPYFILES: Couldn't copy a file
DOS Error trype: Unable to acces a file or a Drawer
object in use

I am very very mad bcoz I buyed the 6 disks of OS3.1
2 times ,the first time from Vesalia and the second
time from Amigakit. Event tryied ADF. But always the same problem!!!!

Can anybody help me before I'll suicicde or trow out the windows all my collections of Amigas???

PLEASE : what is the reason?

I am spendind a lot of money to have all the Amiga models
and harware and the easiest things do not work!!!!!

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!  :madashell:


 :-?  :-?  :-?

[Thomas]

Never use novice mode when asked for your skills and always keep your original disks write protected !!!

The installer tried to install Workbench onto your floppy disks and struggled when it tried to replace a file by itself. Novice mode always does silly things like this, so never use it.

Use advanced mode and choose your HDD partition to install on.

Bye,
Thomas

[Nitro]

It may be your floppy drive.  Try another drive or try to clean the floppy drive with a cleaning disk or a can of air.  If you don`t have a cleaning disk you can open the drive and clean the reader with a Q-Tip.  This may sound funny but it worked for me a few times.

[doctorq]

If you have spend so much money on a big collection, why are you still using the slowest method of installing Workbench???

Just copy the Workbench files manually, it's much easier than using the installer provided.

Boot up with the Workbench disk, open a CLI and copy the files from the Workbench disk to your formatted boot partition.

Copy all DF0: to should do the trick, in case you have booted from DF0 and know the drive name of the bootpartition, usually DH0:.

[Tomas]

Like Thomas said.. It sounds like you were using the novice mode and thus trying to install onto your workbench disks instead of the HD!
I have heard of similar stories before :-(

[CLS2086]

Hum, what are the HDD parameters ?? MaxTRansfer ? Buffers, FFS version ?....