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Title: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: bigeck49 on May 06, 2007, 11:18:07 AM

hi. i have never opened an amiga in my life where does the hard drive go i have just bought a 1.4 gig one to fit in my a1200 but havnt a clue where to put it any help out there be much obliged
thanks alex :-x   :idea:  :madashell:  ;-)

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: Homer on May 06, 2007, 11:20:54 AM

Hi, you need to carefully open it up and look to see if you have the hard drive cradle fitted. I assume you have got a 2.5" drive ?? You then need a short cable to fit it to the IDE header.

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: pjhutch on May 06, 2007, 12:32:54 PM

The space for a 2.5" HD is to the top left with a 2.5" cable connector.

There isn't much space for a 3.5" drive, a towered A1200 would be better. You will need to add a power splitter from the floppy power to power the 3.5" drive as no power header is available for 3.5" is provided.

If you have WB 3.0 or 3.1, do not use any more than 4GB unless you use SFS or PFS to enable disk space beyond the 32bit limit otherwise you need Workbench 3.5 or 3.9.

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: bigeck49 on May 06, 2007, 12:33:43 PM

hi. thanks what does a 21/2 inch drive look like\??????
where is it..
from numpty

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Homer wrote:
Hi, you need to carefully open it up and look to see if you have the hard drive cradle fitted. I assume you have got a 2.5" drive ?? You then need a short cable to fit it to the IDE header.

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: bigeck49 on May 06, 2007, 12:37:03 PM

hi. it is a 21/2 inch drive it says it on it.
i will take alook there is a thing that has 2 more pins than the 21/2 inch connsctor cable????

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: Homer on May 06, 2007, 05:26:44 PM

There are indeed normally a couple of unused pins at one end of the 'dual in line' pins on a 2.5" drive. You must make sure you get the cable in the correct orientation as the 5V is also fed through the cable (while a 3.5" drive has a seperate 'Molex' connector for power).
Do you have a drive preformatted with AmigaOS or do you have the HD install disks ready ?
Can you see a cradle to fit the hard drive inside the A1200 ?
Good luck  :-)

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: bigeck49 on May 06, 2007, 06:07:46 PM

hi. its pre formatted with os 3.1
thanks
alex

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: ZeBeeDee on May 06, 2007, 06:38:17 PM

Try here my friend ...

http://www.cdv.co.nz/support/amiga/001/

Thats a step-by-step tutorial first posted 24/01/2007 by 'InTheSand' :-D

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: bigeck49 on May 06, 2007, 06:42:41 PM

hi.
thanks for that much appreciated
alex

Title: Re: installing hard drive into a1200
Post by: Homer on May 06, 2007, 11:15:06 PM

Wow, that guide sure seems to answer the rest of the questions you were going to ask  :lol: Let us know if it works for you  :-)