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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: VectorPope on April 24, 2006, 10:26:03 AM

Title: WinUAE 1.2.0 on WinXP SP 2 seems to constantly lose the hard drive.
Post by: VectorPope on April 24, 2006, 10:26:03 AM

Hi all,

I just upgraded from an very old version of WinUAE to WinUAE 1.2.0, however, I don't get the hard drives working.
In Settings -> Hardware -> Hard drives, I select "Add Directory".
I save the configuration.

- Reloading the configuration, the hard drive is lost.

- Adding a directory as hard drive dh0: and instantly booting from floppy leads to the Message "Please insert volume dh0 in any drive".

- Booting from the hard drive is not possible at all.

Any ideas? - I'm running WinUAE on a laptop with WinXP SP2.

Many thanks ...

Title: Re: WinUAE 1.2.0 on WinXP SP 2 seems to constantly lose the hard drive.
Post by: Thomas on April 24, 2006, 11:42:27 AM

There are more options now in the new version. Are you sure you filled in only those fields which existed in the old version, too ? E.g. usually you would fill in Volume Name and leave Device Name empty. Do not choose DH0 as Volume Name.

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- Reloading the configuration, the hard drive is lost.

WinUAE removes hard drives which are not found (e.g. non-existent directory).

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- Adding a directory as hard drive dh0: and instantly booting from floppy leads to the Message "Please insert volume dh0 in any drive".

This is probably because you named both Device Name and Volume Name dh0.

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- Booting from the hard drive is not possible at all.

I don't know why you come to this conclusion. If there is a HDD and no floppy disk in any drive, it will certainly boot from the HDD.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Solved! (Re: WinUAE 1.2.0 on WinXP SP 2 seems to constantly lose the hard drive.)
Post by: VectorPope on April 25, 2006, 12:15:33 AM

User fault: I entered the device name with trailing colon.
Without the colon now everything seems to work fine!

Sorry for the confusion ...