I got called to look at an uncle's example of this computer and it looks to me (as a total Amiga novice) as if the HDD boot partition (which contains Workbench?) is perhaps corrupted. On switch-on it throws up an alert box which says something like DH0 (or similar) doesn't contain DOS. If I boot it from floppy I get a GEM-like desktop (Workbench?) which shows the offending partition as a disc icon with about four question marks, viz DH0:????. There is also a 'tray' (?) called 'Work' which appears perhaps to be another partition on the HDD and this is accessible and does contain readable files that the owner has made with a word processor.
Reading the HDD book suggests there might have been a floppy, Install 2.1, with which I could perhaps repair (maybe reformat?) the offending partition but he has no such discs. He says the problem came about after he tried to transfer a game, Lemmings, to the HDD - he says he followed the instructions properly and the game initially ran ok but that he couldn't escape back to the OS. Thus, he switched off and after this, the HDD wouldn't boot any longer and this is where I got called in
So gents - can anyone enlighten me as to how I might proceed with this....?
(I don't have the machine with me so I can't check anything extra quickly.)
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