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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PrepHD & 2091
Keywords: Prep
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Date: 29 Jul 90 21:20:40 GMT
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In <27534@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>, kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>Help!!
>
>I ran:
>> prodprep device scsi.device unit 5
>on my 1.5 meg Quantum (device 5). Now HDTools thinks it is a bootable 40
>Meg Quantum & things have just gone downhill from there...
>
>Now Format can't even find the drive to try & format it.
>
>Question:
>How in the world do I get my 105 Meg Quantum back?
>
>This all started because about every time I copied a directory from the
>40 Meg Quantum to the 105 Meg, the copy locked up & I had to reboot,
>etc.
>
>Multiple tries at reformatting the 105 Meg accomplished nothing.  I
>figured that if I prepped it, things would look up. Guess I was wrong.

The trouble is in what 'prodprep' does, I believe. I ran into the same thing,
and though I can't remember what all I did to get out of it, I DO remember that
it was a long and frustrating process, ending in my doing something that was
quite simple and basic. Problems had to do with the drive it actually ran on
(SCSI address 6), and the name of the partitions on it.

I think your best bet is to do something like this:

1. remove the Q40 from the system.
2. run HDToolbox from floppy, preferably from the boot floppy.
   a. Use the 'read info from drive' option to get the appropriate data
   b. make sure the name of the drive is something different from the Q40
3. add the Q40 back into the system.

Good luck.

-larry

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