By Raistlin/North Star
IN FACT THIS ARTICLE IS JUST A LITTLE TIP. IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT FOR EXAMPLE LIKE ME A FILECARD 42 MBYTES YOU WILL HAVE MANY PROBLEM WITH THIS. SO FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS, GIVEN ANYWHERE IN ANY SPECIFIC DOCUMENTATION... FORMATTING A HARD DISK IS NOT EASY AND FAST, SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE AT LEAST 3 OR 4 SWEATING HOURS IN FRONT OF YOUR MONITOR, JUST GIVE UP. IF YOU WANT TO REPARTITION THE HARD DISK, DO LIKE THIS:
- MAKE BACKUPS OF BOTH AMIGA AND PC HARD DISK
- BOOT PC FROM DISK
- REMOVE PC PARTITION AND AMIGA PARTITION WITH THE PROGRAMS CALLED FDISK AND JDISK.
- REPLACE THEM WITH DESIRED SIZES (FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU WANT 10 MEGABYTES JUST ASK FOR (10*1000)/512 BLOCKS)
- RESET THE AMIGA SYSTEM
- INSERT YOUR HD BOOT-DISK AND BREAK CLI. THEN TYPE:
- BINDDRIVERS
- DJMOUNT
- ALWAYS CANCEL WHEN THERE'S A REQUESTER (NON DOS,ETC...)
- LOAD DISKMONPRO OR SUCH A GOOD DISK MONITOR WITH DEVICES
- FORMAT A 3.5 DISK WITH THE FORMAT OPTION
- LOAD 24 TRACKS (=12 CYLINDERS) FROM $30000 TO $7DFF0
- TRY TO VIEW ASCII, YOU WILL SEE MANY 'DOS.'
- THEN UNDER DISKMONPRO, WRITE OVER HD TRACKS FROM THE NUMBERS INDICATED IN THE DEVICE INFO, AND REPEAT THIS FOR ALL THE TRACKS.
- RUN DISKDOCTOR FROM CLI
- REINSTALL YOUR BACKUP FROM AMIGA
- FORMAT YOUR PC HARDDISK WITH THE 'FORMAT' COMMAND UNDER MSDOS.
- REINSTALL YOUR PC BACKUP
- THAT'S ALL
I KNOW THIS IS A LONG METHOD BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS. SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE MIGHT THINK: WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T HE USE THE FORMAT COMMAND FROM CLI? ANSWER: TRY IT, THE SYSTEM WILL SEEK TO DEATH THE HD TRACK 0...I USED ALL MY UTILITIES BUT ONLY THIS METHOD WORKED...DON'T USE PROGRAMS MADE FOR GVP HARDDISKS, IT WON'T WORK TOO. ANYWAY, I DON'T TAKE ANY RESPONSABILITY WITH WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR HD. ENJOY M8S!!!
This article originally appeared in the Amiga diskmagazine "Freedom Crack #5" by Vega in 1991.
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Addresses and other contact information were only valid when this magazine was originally published, in march of 1991.