Thanks to all who answered my cry for help in installing a new HD to my AMIGA, not forgetting Deron for turning a blind eye to my off-topic use of his facility.
The problem turned out to be one of formatting at basic level. Maxtor had produced the drive primarily for the PC and the Mac. I did notice that the sector length had been set to 1024 bytes, and corrected it on each partition. That is except the boot partition which I unfortunately missed. Although I had no trouble copying the old HD to the new one, and the programs would run OK. It wouild not boot up from the 1024byte boot sector of the new HD.
After putting the matter right (512 byte sectors); the whole kaboodle works fine. Phew!! At 75 years old my brain is not as keen as it used to be.
End of misuse of this list.
Thanks again. I knew I could rely on you all.
Steve Steven Taylor - London SW - England - UK Pentium3 500MHz-Canon BJC6500 printer. 128MEG RAM
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