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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: 2J4EZ on May 22, 2005, 07:34:33 PM

Title: pc hard disk
Post by: 2J4EZ on May 22, 2005, 07:34:33 PM
ok i want to add a bigger hard drive to my amiga its got a 880mb drive but now i want to add a 2gb one
how can i get the hard drive to read in winuae??

ive done this before with my other hard drive but cannot remmber the option to disable hard drives check in winuae

anyone no what it is?
Title: Re: pc hard disk
Post by: blobrana on May 23, 2005, 12:16:07 AM
Hum,
Is it XP on the PC?
You can just plug in your HD and remember not to write anything to it:
Then in winuae go to options (press F12) and find a reference to hard drives, there’s a checkmark that should be ticked `add pc hard drives`...
Er, and that’s it....

Just decant your Amiga HD over to a folder in Winuae .
...then Unplug HD...

And reverse the procedure with the 2 gb HD.
(at least i think you can)

(it it because you dont have the WB disks?)

A clean install using the workbench disks sounds better to me.

BTW, i  just boot winuae from a folder rather than a virtual Hard drive.
Title: Re: pc hard disk
Post by: Thomas on May 23, 2005, 11:37:45 AM
Quote

ive done this before with my other hard drive but cannot remmber the option to disable hard drives check in winuae


The switch is -disableharddrivesafetycheck. To find it out yourself next time, you can load WinUAE.exe into a text editor (Write preferred, Notepad needs too long to load) and search for -dis.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: pc hard disk
Post by: mgerics on May 23, 2005, 12:20:35 PM
Hmm. I just plugged the thing into the IDE cable and checked use UAEscsi in Winuae - It worked fine for me, no issues with Winders at all (XP, that is).
My only beef is that it is * s l o w * compared to using a hard disk file or plain winodws folder.