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Title: Old hard disk
Post by: dac on February 17, 2003, 02:20:39 PM

Hi everybody,
I have an old hard disk with a lot of ADF on it. Is it possible to put it in an amiga and to get back my ADF files? What can I do?
David

Title: Re: Old hard disk
Post by: MasterOfReality on February 17, 2003, 02:42:42 PM

Yes... in much the same way you could plug it into a PC and get the files back (you`ll need to install/activate crossDOS though). As for using the files... Amigas won't run ADF files directly. You'll have to find a way of dumping them back to disk.

Title: Re: Old hard disk
Post by: KennyR on February 17, 2003, 02:45:30 PM

I seem to remember hearing that UAE can now load from Amiga formatted HDs. Maybe I'm wrong. One of the emulator enthusiasts would be able to help you.

Title: Re: Old hard disk
Post by: alx on February 17, 2003, 07:36:45 PM

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I seem to remember hearing that UAE can now load from Amiga formatted HDs. Maybe I'm wrong. One of the emulator enthusiasts would be able to help you

The new versions of WinUAE (don't know about other OSes - my LinuxUAE is old) can load in Amiga formatted or empty partitions.  You need 2000 or XP to do this, though.

Title: Re: Old hard disk
Post by: Tomas on February 17, 2003, 07:43:29 PM

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Amigas won't run ADF files directly. You'll have to find a way of dumping them back to disk.

That you use adf2disk for.. you will probably find it on aminet

Title: Re: Old hard disk
Post by: hagar on February 17, 2003, 08:59:48 PM

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alx wrote:

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I seem to remember hearing that UAE can now load from Amiga formatted HDs. Maybe I'm wrong. One of the emulator enthusiasts would be able to help you

The new versions of WinUAE (don't know about other OSes - my LinuxUAE is old) can load in Amiga formatted or empty partitions.  You need 2000 or XP to do this, though.

Linux should be able to handle FFS formated HDs just like any FAT, VFAT, HPFS, etc formated HDs.