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Offline antonyeTopic starter

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Poorly Amiga 1200
« on: February 10, 2006, 02:17:07 PM »
Hi All,

I was wondering if I could seek some help. My A1200 is refusing to boot off the Hard-disk, Earlier today there was a 2 second power interruption due to general electrical issues on the power grid. And after that the Amiga is refusing to boot the OS. The Hard disk appears to start loading but then stops. As Far as I can tell, The Amiga is attempting to boot off the floppy and CD, nothing else. If it helps, Octamed was being used and accessing files at the time. Any Ideas? :-?
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2006, 02:31:07 PM »
I would hold down both mouse buttons on boot up to get the early start-up and then boot with no startup.
Then in shell check if my harddrive partitions are still there and if anyfiles are missing.

Ive had similar problems in the past as I had a faulty power supply that liked to turn off when copying files. I found it made errors on the harddisk that stopped Workbench booting
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2006, 02:31:44 PM »
sounds like your 1200's power was cut when it was writing a sector, rendering that partition invalidated. what FS was on there ? FFS ?
its worth just switching your mig on (empty DF0: and the CD) and let it rattle. listen carefully you should hear it chunking around as it validates the disk. if that doesnt work, try using a disk repair tool. (can't think of its name right now !)
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2006, 02:37:47 PM »
I would check that except I don't have any other Video output other than the Bvision...I will look at this.
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2006, 02:40:36 PM »
Jeez, I thought the power company had killed it. When I turn it on, I can see the Miggy trying to boot the CD. The hard drive starts clicking, sounding like it's loading and then dosn't. I will try the Idea with disconnecting the HDD.
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2006, 02:41:04 PM »
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 try using a disk repair tool. (can't think of its name right now !)


DISKSALV???
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2006, 02:42:57 PM »
too bad, in the us you can make a claim against the powercompany and get a new harddrive and what software you need :).
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2006, 02:44:25 PM »
I though of that....Now if only I could access the partion that it was on. I think I have it on a disk somewhere though.  :-o
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2006, 02:45:56 PM »
Cybergraphix 3.0 or 4.0, Octamed are the most important ones. PPC Libraries for my Blizzard PPC...OMG...I can't not use this.....Sombody think of the Miggy   :cry:   Blast the power company
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2006, 03:21:51 PM »
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DISKSALV???


ar, thats the one ! bostin !
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2006, 03:31:23 PM »
Cool. I will look into that
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2006, 03:33:05 PM »
DISKSALV should help you.
But you'll have to boot on a floppy WB disc, or on MOS PowerUP 1.4.5 CD.
Can you reach the Early startyp and the PPC menu ?
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Re: Poorly Amiga 1200
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2006, 04:56:40 PM »
I have no way of checking as My Primary graphics Card is the Bvision. I know the Amiga boots off a floppy. The HDD in the amiga was an old one from storage...I have all my appz on 1 of the partitions. Nearly all my orig miggy software was stolen years ago :o)
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