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From: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard disk booting
Message-ID: <1991Jun03.151549.12836@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 3 Jun 91 15:15:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: actrix.1991Jun03.151549.12836
References: <1JUN91133124@vms.huji.ac.il>
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In article <1JUN91133124@vms.huji.ac.il> seran@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
> Hi,
>  Please tell me if this is a good idea or are there better ones.
> Recently I , in a very tired and uncarring state, put a program in my boot
> drive c: of my hardisk. It was an ACC. When I rebooted the program caused
> the computer to totaly crash. I am using desk manager so I was not too worried
> and went into the ACC selection and unmarked this program. But it did not help.
> The ACC still ran and still crashed the computer. After many hours of working
> and trying to get rid of the program or around it in some way, I gave in to the
> thought that I will have to reformat my hard drive. The next day I came up with
> a simple, obvious idea which saved me. I only formatted drive c:. Then I put
> in C: as a boot drive again and reloaded from my back-up which was almost fully
> entact. 
> 
>  I avoided losing all 60 megs but I also came up with a diff idea. Why not
> partion the HD so that drive c: is the smallest amount of memory possible.
> make it a boot up drive and stick _only_ desk manager there. Then make a drive
> d: or whatever that will contain all the prg's and acc's that desk manager acceses.
> Then if ever I get a program which kills on booting I can just format drive c:
> and only need to restore desk manager. It sounds good to me, perhaps I am 
> wrong. Any ideas, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated.
> 
>  Also, what is the procedure of putting dos on the hardisk for pcditto? And
> is there also a way to do the same for aladin?
> 
>  Thanks,
>     Eran..
> (please answer to my email adress bellow if possible as I cannot read the list
>  often)
> 
>  SERAN@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL

Was the ACC set for Read Only ?? this could be one of your Problems.
Also it would have been very easy to Delete the ACC from the Directory
with a sector editor..there is a good PD, but Mono one thats called 
Monomone.
 




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