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From: whites@unvax.union.edu (Shayne White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: hd trouble
Summary: help!
Keywords: lost files
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.233038.17946@unvax.union.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 23:30:38 GMT
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
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 	I have an A2000HD w/ 1 meg, 40 meg hd.  I seem to have lost some
files somehow.  I think it may have been caused by the program PalBoot.
I've used Pal Boot and I've never had a problem, but when I ran it the
other night it hung the system.  So I rebooted, and everything was
normal.  I didn't use PalBoot again.  Then next I cold booted the
machine, it stopped in my startup-sequence.  It could not find the directory
it was looking for to put in the path.  hmmm.... So I removed that
particular path from the startup-sequence.  Tried again.  This time the
startup couldn't find sys:prefs.  Oh no.  I looked at dh0: and sure
enough, prefs dir was gone.  So I copied it back on to dh0: from a
workbench disk.  Finally, the startup-sequence could be completed.  I
tried to run a demo of Synthia II and it would either say that the audio
port was busy or it could not get the serial port.  I tried Dynamic
Drums and it gurued once, but then ran ok.  What's up with this?  I
could only get the Synthia II demo to run by booting with another
workbench (1.3, like the one on my HD).  I'm puzzled.  I couldn't find
anymore files missing from dh0:, and I can't imagine how they got
deleted in the first place.  If anyone has any ideas, I'd really
appreciate it.

Shayne White (whites@unvax.union.edu)