Blank screen
Your hard disk is just a data disk until it has a special signal written on
it that says, in effect, "boot from me". On a floppy disk, you write that
signal with a command called INSTALL, and in earlier messages I thought that
this command would work with the hard disk, too (it won't).
SOMETHING is written on your hard disk, since when you attempt to boot from
it you get a blank screen, rather than an "insert Workbench disk" picture. It
seems likely to me that you will need to "re-install" your hard disk to get
things sorted out. But you did get a message a day or two back suggesting that
you go into a drawer called HDtools (or something like that) and see if you can
fix things from there. Did you try it?
Now, I can give you a series of commands that should get your hard disk into
useful working condition, if you wish. For example, one would be ASSIGN C:
HD0:C (assuming your hard disk Workbench partition is called HD0:). This would
say, "Don't get your commands from the floppy Workbench disk any more; instead,
get them from the hard drive".
But such commands are a red herring. The main job we need to do is to GET
YOUR HARD DRIVE BOOTING AGAIN!
I don't have a 3.0 system (yet), so I can't offer to send you replacements
for your system disks, which appear to be defective. But we can work on that,
too.
–Jim