| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 15:54:05 |
| Subject: | Re: HDToolbox - confused of Essex |
James Potter said,
> To set up HDDs before I've used Faastprep (which I got years ago with
> something... a harddrive probably) but I thought I'd do it the proper way,
> using tools that came with the OS.
Good idea. Faastprep is evil. It was supplied with GVP SCSI controllers
and created non-standard RDBs.
> I installed both units using HDToolbox and partitioned them how I wanted. I
> was then informed that a reboot was necessary to complete the changes. Fair
> enough.
> On reboot none of the new partitions appeared on screen. In fact, none were
> mounted at all. Yet HDToolbox still showed the partitions how I'd set them
> up.
HDToolBox creates the partitions, but they don't contain anything yet.
You now need to format each partition, using the standard AmigaDOS
Format command.
Neil
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