UAE on Windows can't see my Amiga drive

[Thomas]

If BIOS / Windows Disk Management cannot see the drive, then WinUAE won't ever see it. First make the hardware work, then the software might work, too.

Mike's first question is most important: how did you connect the Amiga drive (which most likely is IDE) to the SATA port?

Do you hear the drive spin up and make its usual noise when it reaches "cruising speed"?

Could it be that you connected the drive upside down or otherwise wrongly?

Perhaps master/slave jumpers have to be changed for the drive to work on an IDE/SATA-adapter.

Do any other IDE drives work with this adapter?

[Thomas]

Just use an USB flash drive or similar to copy the relevant ROMs from the other machine. They are located in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Amiga Files\shared\Roms or in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Amiga Files\shared\Roms.

Or just copy them from the AF CD.

Don't forget the rom.key file which is needed in any case.

Or use the same flash drive to copy the image to the machine with AF.

[Thomas]

If you use "add harddrive" in WinUAE, there is a "create image file" button.

But you shouldn't write the image to the CF card. If you do, the new drive will be 2.9GB, too. The additional space would be wasted.

You should rather mount both in WinUAE and then copy all files from the old to the new drive.