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[lionstorm]

Do you think that the fact I changed only the filesystem on one partition (the boot) would explain why my amiga keeps resetting ?
Lio

[Damion]

Do you think that the fact I changed only the filesystem on one partition (the boot) would explain why my amiga keeps resetting ?
Lio

Yes.

If the parition which is damaged has the highest
boot priority on your hard disk (highest
numer in HDToolbox, I'm  guessing
set to 1 since it's your boot device)
then yes beacaue it will continue attempting
to boot from that parition, no matter what,
unless you select otherwise in the "Early
Startup", or have a bootable floppy in DF0.

Floppy drives are usually given the highest
boot priority at 5, while main boot partitions
should normally be set to 1.

Lio, I agree with Thomas the best way to handle
the situation is to reinstall the old
filesystem. It will not damage the volume any
further, and really should resolve your issues.

-D-

[Framiga]

by lionstorm on 2003/8/15 11:19:13

Do you think that the fact I changed only the filesystem on one partition (the boot) would explain why my amiga keeps resetting ?
Lio

You are scary by the message from HDToolbox . . don't worry, downgrade to SFS 1.90 and save again!

If you change ONLY the boot partition FS but in L: there is still only the new SFS, how about the other partition?

In L: dir, now you have only SmartFileSystem 2.xxx  while HDToolbox is set for the old SFS1.90.

Now (with the backup HD) check partition per partition, the DosType of ALL partitions, after reinstalling SFS 1.90 in L: and save again.

Ciao

[lionstorm]

Problem solved, thanks to all of you !! I learnt a few things from this : always backup regularly, create a small bootable partition with a lower boot priority, update the filesystem on all partitions using the same filesystem in HDTB, use the same version of HDTB to recover.
Lio