Copying Amiga hard drive

[spaceman88]

Hi,
My 3.5" hard drive from my A1200 Tower is making more noise than it did before. Is there a way to make an exact copy to a new(er) hard drive? I have a PC program to copy Windows HD's (called Migrate easy), but I think I read that connecting an Amiga drive to a PC will corrupt it.

[CLS2086]

Hi,
make some partition with a close name (you'll change them later) and specs, format, open a shell/cli

copy ALL from originalpartition: to newcopypartition:

replace originalpartition: and newcopypartition: to the appropriate name

[Thomas]

I think I read that connecting an Amiga drive to a PC will corrupt it.

Only if you run Win95/98/ME. Win2K/XP/Vista will not currupt the drive (unless you tell it to do so).

Is there a way to make an exact copy to a new(er) hard drive?

Only if the new drive is exactly the same size as the old one. There is no software to change partition sizes. Windows software won't even see any partitions on an Amiga drive.

The better solution is to just copy all files from the old hdd to the new one as was already suggested.

Bye,
Thomas

[ChaosLord]

@CLS2086

If you do it like that then all the dates will be wrong.

So do it like this to be EXACT
copy ALL CLONE from originalpartition: to newcopypartition:


@OriginalPoster
I have done it like that lots of times.  Works great!

[kvasir]

Is the "new" partition the same, or at least an "Amiga" filesystem? Otherwise you might run into some trouble copying to a fat32/ntfs/nfs partition with file attributes. There's a few scripts on Aminet that would help with this if thats the case. (Thought I'd pipe in, having recently datadumped a 2.1GB drive to an 8GB USB thumb drive to restore to a 40GB drive I was upgrading to. 1 44-pin IDE port, 2 44-pin drives, no 44-40 pin adapters for the other 3 slots.. BTW... it IS possible to use a Subway USB boot floppy to mount a thumbdrive and continue booting from it, but requires some good reading material for the ensuing wait.. ugh..) Did a quick aminet search for that script, couldn't find it. It will recursivly go through a directory tree, and put an amigados script that resets all the protection bits @ the root level. (AmigaOS3.9 seems really picky about that.)