Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Help! > > When I power up my Minis-QL (Aurora/Super Gold Card/Qubide) the > opening screen where the rom versions etc are printed with the F1 > Monitor/F2 TV prompts, I get a message saying "this is not a Qubide > partition". But it starts up SMSQ/E and my boot program OK. Any > attempt then to DIR WIN1_ gives a "Not Found" error. Seems strange > it'll start up SMSQ/E and my boot program then WIN1_ magically > vanishes. > > Is this likely to be a dying hard disk? Or does anyone have any other > suggestions? > > Dilwyn,
You sure SMSQ/e and your boot program are not loading from elsewhere, like ROMdisq? I always find that if the message "this is not a Qubide partition" appears, the QL will not be able to communicate with the hard disk at all. It always seems to happen if you don't use the hard disk for a while! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
