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OK I am confussed! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« on: January 18, 2003, 12:33:42 PM »
I want to add my Amiga hard drive to use in WinUAE. I need some help! I have taken it from my A1200 and put it in as a Primary Slave drive, yet windows sees it and has put it in as the E: drive. Also there is some stuff on it that I have never seen before! And WinUAE refuses to see any Amiga partitions.

It is a QUANTUM Maverick 500Mb. Old but works fine with my miggy.

Any help is greatfully recived!
 

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Re: OK I am confussed! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2003, 03:11:48 PM »
Strange.
500 is quite small, small enough to copy the entire HD to the winUAE drawer?...

boot from a WINUAE floppy and see what has been copied to the drawer.

What file system is on the amiga HD?
Is it the latest version of WinUAE?

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Re: OK I am confussed! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2003, 03:22:11 PM »
I am using FFS on the HDD. The hard drive was taken out of an old computer that wasn't needed anymore (a DOS baseed PC). I partitioned it into two partitions (Workbench @ 150Meg and Work 350Meg), but now that I add it to the PC Win2k is picking up what must be the old DOS partition, something I would have thought would have been deleted once I had setup the Amiga partitions.

I am doing it really more for an experiment more then anything else, but I didn't expect to fall at the first hurdle!! :lol:

I am using R4 of WinUAE
 

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Re: OK I am confused! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2003, 04:48:51 PM »
Ok , boot up you windows2k and copy (by hand) the contents of the 500Mb HD...(rEmember all the .info files and make sure (now) that their properties are not set to read only)...

ok, BOOT Winuae... simple.

Now you can format the 500Mb drive through the Amiga, and copy back all that Data ( why?)
This Will/DOES work! Hehe.

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Re: OK I am confused! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2003, 05:30:46 PM »
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Ok , boot up you windows2k and copy (by hand) the contents of the 500Mb HD...(rEmember all the .info files and make sure (now) that their properties are not set to read only)...

ok, BOOT Winuae... simple.

Now you can format the 500Mb drive through the Amiga, and copy back all that Data ( why?)
This Will/DOES work! Hehe.

That is the problem, all i can see is the old MS-DOS files, I can't see any of my Amiga stuff :-(
 

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Re: OK I am confused! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2003, 05:52:54 PM »
Oh. Then the PC cannot read the file format of the Amiga HD!

Have you acess to a real amiga, to plug  the HD in?
Are you sure there is amiga data on the HD? (Hehe)

There is a file systm called Fat95, on aminet, that you may want to read up on...it allows the reading of PC/AMIGA data off HDs.

It sounds like you may have to port the data via floppies (and crossdos). I would also see if using another older version (8.22 revision 3)of WinUAe works.
There was a good guide to Winuae posted here.

And as a last resort check you settings on Winuae, the uaescsi.device  sould be checked etc. Although it should be setup already.

I`m out of ideas...




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Re: OK I am confussed! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2003, 10:01:44 PM »

Writing an Amiga partition table to a HD does not necessaryly delete the PC partition table.

WinUAE has a safety restriction that it does not show drives with PC partition tables on it.

These are your options:

- somehow delete the PC partition table so WinUAE shows the drive (warning: this might as well destroy the Amiga partition table. You should know what you do)

- put the Amiga drive and the PC drive into your Amiga and use the Amiga and the FAT95 software to copy the files to your PC HD.

- wait for the next WinUAE version. It will allow you to override the safety protection.

- there are a few more options like a nullmodem cable, an ethernet connection, floppy disks etc.

Bye,
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Re: OK I am confussed! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2003, 10:05:50 PM »
@Thomas

Ahhhh that clears it all up, thankyou! Nothing important on the drive, like I say I was just interested in the useage of it. Might see if I can delete the DOS partition. Or maybe wait and see if the next version of WinUAE works like you say before taking the chance!
 

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Re: OK I am confused! Using Hard drive with WinUAE
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2003, 10:11:42 PM »
@blobrana

Thanks for all your help too! Well, suggestions anyway ;-) Have a well earned :pint: on me!