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Offline ExfsoTopic starter

CF card as a replacement for a dead hard drive
« on: May 09, 2020, 06:07:05 PM »
My old 4000 SCSI hard drive is dead and I am trying to get a CF card formatted to replace it.  I have both WinUAE and Forever Amiga (paid version) and do you reckon I can get this running. No damn way.  I have tried numerous tutorials and always I end up failing. I have a new 4gb CF card and I keep getting all sorts of error messages ranging from write protected drives to god knows what. I have a full set of .adf files for 3.1 and roms, it just seems whatever I do just fails. Any help on this much appreciated, it is really doing my head in......attached is one of the messages.
 

Offline ExfsoTopic starter

Re: CF card as a replacement for a dead hard drive
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2020, 06:51:58 AM »
The emulated floppy is definitely not write protected, this is why I am getting so damn frustrated. :o
 

Offline ExfsoTopic starter

Re: CF card as a replacement for a dead hard drive
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2020, 12:35:20 PM »
Now it gets worse, the card cannot be recognised at all by Win UAE, I have done the clean on it through the cmd and whilst it shows up using the command show disk, that is all that happens, when I try to add a hard disk to WinUAE it is not showing up at all. Not sure what to do now, as it was showing up yesterday..
 

Offline ExfsoTopic starter

Re: CF card as a replacement for a dead hard drive
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2020, 04:42:46 PM »
Thanks mate, always run this as an administrator.. ::)
 

Offline ExfsoTopic starter

Re: CF card as a replacement for a dead hard drive
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2020, 01:04:35 PM »
Ok whilst still in the cmd area I enter delete, is that correct??
 

Offline ExfsoTopic starter

Re: CF card as a replacement for a dead hard drive
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2020, 07:23:13 AM »
Thanks Thomas, appreciated.