Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!merk!level10!dfisk From: dfisk@level10.UUCP (David Fisk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: Hiding the Amax icon under Workbench Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 22:45:54 GMT References: <42455@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <29367@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Jun25.215053.2279@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.234156.708@nic.csu.net> <1991Jun27.185405.8885@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <21217.2869e66b@oregon.uoregon.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: What Organization? Lines: 21 In article <21217.2869e66b@oregon.uoregon.edu>, gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu writes: > That alert made me nervous as well but as I had little on my A-Max partition > at the time, I went ahead with the opperation fully expecting to have to > reformat the partition under A-Max and reinstall my software. Imagine my > surprize when, next time I started A-Max, it booted right up off the partition > and all data was there intact. It worked for me -- son't lnow why, just that > it did. Good luck. > > --geoff HDToolbox was reporting that to you because you were changing a partition that it thought was FastFileSystem to Reserved. If there actually were AmigaDOS information on that partition, then it would have indeed trashed the data on it (only if you actually wrote to it in that state). Now since A-Max has it's own concept of what should be on the partition, and it ignores the chosen filesystem, you don't have a problem. Dave... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Fisk - level10%dfisk@merk.com ...uunet!merk!level10!dfisk