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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Phoenix on February 27, 2003, 02:33:44 PM

Title: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: Phoenix on February 27, 2003, 02:33:44 PM

Help.

I have a A1200 and work bench 3.0, ive recently bought a second toshiba hardrive 2.5". it is formatted in fat32 can i format using workbench 3.0.

Its  2.0gb by the way

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: Karlos on February 27, 2003, 02:48:25 PM

As long as you have all your WB disks, you should be able to. You will need to use HD toolbox to set up the drive for use on your system (and partition it etc),
once installed you can then format your partitions etc. at will...

As far as size goes, AFAIK anything below 4GB is ok with WB3.0.

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: Phoenix on February 27, 2003, 03:13:24 PM

Where do I locate HD tool box??

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: lorddef on February 27, 2003, 03:25:11 PM

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Phoenix wrote:
Where do I locate HD tool box??

Aminet

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: Karlos on February 27, 2003, 03:27:04 PM

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Phoenix wrote:
Where do I locate HD tool box??

If you have a disk labelled 'install' as part of your WB3.0 set it should be there too...

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: on February 27, 2003, 04:13:37 PM

install is the disk to have at hand you can do a fast cold boot into a minimal workbench and sort out the hd with it.

keep it safe and back it up!  :-D

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: Phoenix on February 28, 2003, 01:00:33 PM

My Amiga came in the cartoon pack Dpaint4AGA etc, would I have the install disk in there??

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: Vincent on February 28, 2003, 01:17:00 PM

The Install disk should be with the Workbench disks.  They'll all have the same label.

Use the Install disk to boot from.

Title: Re: A1200 Harddrive
Post by: jj on February 28, 2003, 02:52:08 PM

The install disk did not come as standard with workbench 3.0 unless you bought the machine with a hard-drive already installed.  I had this problem when i first put a 356mb 3.5 HDD in my A1200.  It cost me £220 at the time, which was a bout the going rate.  Still got the drive.  So u will need to get a copy of the disk or HDtoolbox off Aminet