When my Amiga crashes the hard drive will go crazy attempting to boot and the hard drive light will sometimes stay on for up to 20 minutes. What can I do to stop this?

There is very little you could do to prevent this. The Amiga has probably crashed whilst it is writing to, or reading from the hard drive meaning the information it was using has probably been "placed" on the wrong "section" of the hard drive. Unlike the PC the Amiga will usually repair the damage automatically, it just takes time. The only way that you can actually shorten the time it takes to repair itself is by holding down both mouse buttons when it has reset and go into the Early Startup Menu, from here you can select to boot with no startup-sequence. This will allow the Amiga to sort itself out without having to attempt to boot Workbench at the same time.

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