Amiga Drives and Windows

[Lost_Amigo]

I would like any comments
from those that have WinXp or is it Win2000? and Amiga
hardrives connected and working or problems?
I have all my Amiga Hardrives with OS's installed
and would really like to use my old HDs, UAE/Forever with Windows.
Currently I have WinME and know Amiga HD's Cannot be used :-(


Thanks.... :-P

[pjhutch]

There are two utlities you can try:ADF Opus and ADF View which can do similar things with HDs.

See
http://adfopus.sourceforge.net/
http://www.viksoe.dk/adfview/ .

[Morley]

Lost_Amigo wrote:
I would like any comments
from those that have WinXp or is it Win2000? and Amiga
hardrives connected and working or problems?
I have all my Amiga Hardrives with OS's installed
and would really like to use my old HDs, UAE/Forever with Windows.
Currently I have WinME and know Amiga HD's Cannot be used :-(

'

Well, I don't think you can access them directly from Windows, but with winuae you can boot from your old HDD's just like they were sitting in your Amiga. You can even create a virtual Amiga partition/drive on a directory on fat/ntfs hdd's, so you can copy files back and forth from the pc<->amihga from within winuae. It all works very neat and flawless, at least I am very impressed!

[Jope]

Yep, don't connect them.. Win9x (ME is 9x) will write over parts of the RDB on startup.. It's fixable, but I don't know off the top of my head other software that fixes it than Amithlon.

[Morley]

Jope wrote:
Yep, don't connect them.. Win9x (ME is 9x) will write over parts of the RDB on startup.. It's fixable, but I don't know off the top of my head other software that fixes it than Amithlon.

WinME does this without warning or asking questions?

When I connected my Amiga-harddrives to my XP-box, it really wanted to "initialize" or "install" the disk, which I fortunately denied it to do. Everything worked like a charm on Winuae, and they worked when I threw them back in my 4000. Golden rule I think is to just connect them, and not mess around at all with them from Windows. Just access them from the Winuae side.

[Glaucus]

And umm...  don't forget to back it up before you attempt such a thing.  ;-)

  - Mike

[Jope]

Morley wrote:
WinME does this without warning or asking questions?

Yes, along with the other 9x OSes

When I connected my Amiga-harddrives to my XP-box, it really wanted to "initialize" or "install" the disk, which I fortunately denied it to do. Everything worked like a charm on Winuae, and they worked when I threw them back in my 4000. Golden rule I think is to just connect them, and not mess around at all with them from Windows. Just access them from the Winuae side.

2k/XP and other NT based Windowses doesn't mess with the beginning of the disk.

Actually, you can only use WinUAE's Amiga drive feature with 2k/XP.. Toni uses some system calls that are not available under 9x.

Time to upgrade and see the amazing difference in stability, if anyone's still using 98 or ME.. (god forbid 95)