Here's a puzzler for you!
I recently revived my old a1200 and powered it up to find the hard drive made some very odd noises and refused to boot. I changed the drive for a cf adapter I had with 4gb card, booted from floppy, partitioned the drive fine, rebooted and no partitions came up to format. Tried this 3 times, then tried a real hard drive, same thing. I've changed the cable and power supply in desparation with no joy.
Any ideas anyone?