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Compact Flash Hard Drive HELP!!!
« on: June 17, 2011, 10:40:02 PM »
I've just sat down to install my new 4GB CF from Amigakit in my A4000D, I selected my OS and put the floppy in the drive......it seems my copy of Workbench 3.1 has a read block error and now I've restarted the computer I can't get back Amigakits menu......any ideas would be great.
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Re: Compact Flash Hard Drive HELP!!!
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2011, 10:50:12 PM »
Suggest you contact Amigakit via the support ticket system,  I'm pretty sure there is a way to recover their menu/install system.

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Re: Compact Flash Hard Drive HELP!!!
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2011, 11:45:48 PM »
In a CLI or Shell type

OS-Install

and press Enter

Or on boot, when the AmigaKit logo is displayed for a few seconds, press the O key.   A message will be displayed Loading OS-Install

You will then be presented with the OS-Install program where you can select the version of AmigaOS to install onto the hard disk:

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Re: Compact Flash Hard Drive HELP!!!
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 12:30:06 AM »
Thank you, I will try that. It seems my floppy drive is broken I will try tomorrow with a spare external drive
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Re: Compact Flash Hard Drive HELP!!!
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 02:19:13 PM »
Ah it seems I've made it worse - Support Ticket raised! This is what happened last night........

I fitted the CF-HDD and  turned the system on, it came up with the Amigakit logo and menu, so I followed  the instructions in the same way I did when I setup my CF-HDD on my  A1200. However this time my A4000 wouldn't read my Workbench floppy I  tried many times and hit cancel. That resulted in loosing the menu but  the logo still came up. So I went into workbench and tried to install  from there. Mid-Install the same thing happened it couldn't read the  floppy. Now the CF-HDD will not boot or show up in any form of  workbench. I have a PCMCIA CF reader for my A1200 that I just tested the  card on and it comes up with CFO:NDOS. How do I format and partition the 4GB card?
It also seems that the A4000 floppy drive is a bit hit a miss reading floppies, my spare external drive is a bit better, and maybe my WK3.1 is screwed.....but......could I copy the WK3.1 CF card from my A1200 and use it on my A4000?
It is times like this I realise I have no idea what I'm doing!

Right, well after lots of playing around I realised that the startup had changed I managed to limp into Workbench and the CF-HDD was there!!! So I swapped the startup files around and got back to the Amigakit menu........now trying to installed WK3.1 again!
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Main Two Systems:
Commodore Amiga 4000D - 3.1 ROM\'s / Workbench 3.1/5/9 / 2MB ChipRAM / 16MB FastRAM / Cyberstorm2 68040 @40MHz, 128MB FastRAM / Picasso MKIV / 4GB CF-IDE HDD / X-Surf 100 & RapidRoad / CD-ROM
Amiga Inc. Amiga 1200 - 3.1 ROM\'s / Workbench 3.1 / 2MB ChipRAM / 8MB FastRAM / 4GB CF-IDE HDD

Commodore
Pet 4016-N / C-VIC20 x3 / C-64 x3 / C-64C x3 / C128 x2 / C16 / C-Plus/4
Commodore Amiga
A1000 / A500 x5 / A500 Plus / A600 x5 / A1200 x4 / A1500 x2 / CD32 / CDTV