Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive…

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Date	2019-01-02 13:47 -0800
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Subject	Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive…
From	artisan213574@gmail.com

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On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 11:17:38 PM UTC-6, artisa...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I recently purchased an Atari Mega STE with an internal hard drive. For some reason, I cannot boot into the internal hard drive at all because I do not know what key to push to bypass the floppy drive. I am still very novice at this, plus the fact is I do not have an owner's manual for this computer. Can someone give me some tips on how to perform this action?
> 
> Your assistance and advice are duly appreciated. Thank you.
> 
> –Artisan21

Hi again, folks!

OK. Here is the recent news. I used a MegaSTE Language Disk floppy and got three inaccessible hard drive partition icons on the screen. I also commandeered a copy of the MegaATE Advanced Hard Drive Utilities floppy disk. I ran the AHDI program on the disk, and the computer said that the hard disk was not boot-loaded. We are seemingly getting closer to the hard disk working, but what lack I yet?

I think that there may be a desktop .INF file in the hard disk. Could that be an issue? How do I make the hard disk self-boot without ruining the data on there, in short, without wiping out the drive?  Do I need to have HDINSTALL run to set up the hard drive and can I do that without erasing the data? Thanks.

–Artisan21

P.S. I also have hard drive recovery applications. I might want to try these, but I need your advice first. Thanks again!

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Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2018-12-31 21:17 -0800
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2019-01-01 08:18 +0100
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-01 03:26 -0800
    Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2019-01-01 13:10 +0100
      Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2019-01-01 17:26 +0000
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-01 10:05 -0800
    Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2019-01-01 19:33 +0100
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-02 13:47 -0800
    Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Arachide <houten.van@orange.fr> - 2019-01-02 23:12 +0100
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-02 14:55 -0800
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-02 15:05 -0800
    Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Michael Allard <kamakazi20012@live.com> - 2019-01-02 18:39 -0800
      Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Michael Allard <kamakazi20012@live.com> - 2019-01-02 18:53 -0800
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-12 19:24 -0800
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-17 10:40 -0800
  Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… artisan213574@gmail.com - 2019-01-18 09:24 -0800
    Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… Michael Allard <kamakazi20012@live.com> - 2019-01-18 17:02 -0800
      Re: Issues Booting Atari Mega STE Internal Hard Drive… David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2019-01-19 09:26 +0000

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