can someone fix my amiga HD ?

[rednova]

Dear Friends:

My HD was definitely sick from a virus attack. ( a1200).
I reformatted the HD and left the WB partition intact.
If I skip the boot sequence and use 'load wb' command
the HD then works and I can use the HD.
If I don't skip the boot sequence, the HD will not boot.
Is there anyone I can send my HD so they can fix it
and then send back to me?
can someone fix my amiga HD ?
Thanks !!!

Rednova

[runequester]

Dear Friends:

My HD was definitely sick from a virus attack. ( a1200).
I reformatted the HD and left the WB partition intact.
If I skip the boot sequence and use 'load wb' command
the HD then works and I can use the HD.
If I don't skip the boot sequence, the HD will not boot.
Is there anyone I can send my HD so they can fix it
and then send back to me?
can someone fix my amiga HD ?
Thanks !!!

Rednova

Do you get any error messages? It may just be something broken in the user-startup or startup-sequence.

Someone here can probably help you fix those

[Thomas]

My HD was definitely sick from a virus attack. ( a1200).
I reformatted the HD and left the WB partition intact.

I wonder why you formatted the data partitions which probably weren't affected by the virus and kept the WB partition which most likely was the home of the virus.

can someone fix my amiga HD ?

Format the boot partition and install a fresh WB. Without the data partitions there is nothing special on the boot partition anyway.

[rednova]

Hi:

It has been many many years before I used workbench disks.
I still have all original WB disks, the complete set.
I do not remember installing the WB disks, because it has been
many years ago.
Is it possible to:
reformat the WB partition,
then without turning off amiga,
install the workbench disks from floppies.
Is this all I need ?
And before installing WB, how can I set the size of the WB partition in the HD ?
Please help !!!

Rednova

[Thomas]

Is it possible to:
reformat the WB partition,
then without turning off amiga,
install the workbench disks from floppies.

Other than Windows, AmigaOS *does* allow you to format the disk you booted from. But you won't be able to work afterwards. Better boot from floppy disk.

Put the Install disk in to the floppy drive, then reboot. When the Amiga has finished booting, open the Install disk icon, then the Install drawer and finally select the language you want the installer to run in.

When you are asked for your skill, do *not* select Novice!

For everything else just follow the on-screen instructions.

And always keep all your floppy disks write protected! If the installer asks you to remove the write protection, then you did something wrong. Do not remove the protection at any time!

And before installing WB, how can I set the size of the WB partition in the HD ?

At first you tell us that you don't even know how to work with floppies and now you want to change partitions? Don't you think you should begin with small steps?

The program to change partitions is called HDToolbox and is in the HDTools drawer on the Install disk. But you really should only use it when you have a little bit more experience. Changing partitions will remove all data on these partitions.

[rednova]

Hi:

@ Thomas
thank you for helping me,
I am just thinking, instead of hassling with the WB reinstall,
why not just keep The WB partition intact ( no reformat or reinstall )
and just boot w/o start up sequence, 'load wb' command
and just use amiga like that.
Forever keep booting w/o start up sequence.
What do you think ?

Rednova

PS: Actually, I am not even sure if I was attacked by the Virus,
I just think it might but it might be not either, maybe something
happened with the startup sequence.

[Retro_71]

I think its more likely you have a problem with your startup sequence maybe there is something missing.

How many floppy drives do you have?
If you only have one then what i may get you to do is very painful.. First you need to see if even your s:startup-sequence file is even there.
load up workbench
open the boot hard drive and then open S Folder
IF you can't see startup-sequence there then right click and go to window on the menu bar go down to show and click show all and see if startup-sequence is there if it is double click it.
Check to see if any error come up.

If its there then you have to see what is inside the startup sequence.

Goto your workbench disk and open up the system folder. then double click shell
type in "S:" hit enter
then type in "ed startup-sequence"
it should load ed with the startup sequence there now you can edit it and make changes to it
A basic startup sequence should look like this. (A1200)

; STARTUP-SEQUENCE BEGIN
set echo on

IF EXISTS SYS:C/IDEFIX
C:IDEFIX
ENDIF

C:SetPatch Quiet

If EXISTS C:NSDPatch
C:NSDPatch Quiet
ENDIF

C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS: DOSDrivers/~(#?.info) ; without the space between : d lol giving u are smily face if you put them together on the forums

If Exists DEVS:Monitors
If Exists DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
EndIf

C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) To T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors/%s"
Execute T:M
C: Delete >NIL: T:M ; without the space between : d
EndIf

SetEnv Language "english"
SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:AddDataTypes REFRESH Quiet
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

If Exists S:User-Startup
Execute S:User-Startup
EndIf

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE

C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:
; STARTUP-SEQUENCE END

Don't forget to click project and save after that exit and reboot (without floppies inside) and see how you go..

[PanterHZ]

Hi:

@ Thomas
thank you for helping me,
I am just thinking, instead of hassling with the WB reinstall,
why not just keep The WB partition intact ( no reformat or reinstall )
and just boot w/o start up sequence, 'load wb' command
and just use amiga like that.
Forever keep booting w/o start up sequence.
What do you think ?

Rednova

PS: Actually, I am not even sure if I was attacked by the Virus,
I just think it might but it might be not either, maybe something
happened with the startup sequence.

I'm afraid that just using the loadwb command will leave you with a VERY limited workbench, most of the stuff in the startup-sequence file are actually needed for a functional workbench.

Retro 71 mentiones the startup-sequence, but there are also two other possible roots to you problems, and they are the user-startup file and the contents of the WBStartup drawer.

If not formatting & reinstalling worbench is an option, the best course of action is to start eliminating things one by one. You can start with the WBStartup drawer, rename it to something else (like -WBStartup), this is so that the system can't find it upon booting. For the user-startup file, you can either rename it as well, or you can disable it in the startup-sequence by inserting a semi-colon at the beginning of the "Execute S:user-startup" line like this:

;Execute S:user-startup

Then save the startup-sequence and try to reboot.

[Retro_71]

User startup and WBStartup folder where going to be phase 2..
Also if you can copy or make note of your startup sequences (both startup and user) and post here if you can?
Also check your WBstartup folder and post whats inside do the show all option for that folder/draw.