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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: darkage on January 27, 2011, 12:38:09 AM

Title: WinUAE hdd image to physical hdd
Post by: darkage on January 27, 2011, 12:38:09 AM

I've been playing around with USB -> physical 2.5" have successfully mounted it within WinUAE and currently going through WB 3.1 install a few times wiping it if I make too many mistakes, starting from scratch again..  Learning from my mistakes.

I've already got one or two preinstalled WinUAE Hard drive files with completed environments,  I was just wondering if its possible to basically do a direct mount transfer from WinUAE Hard Drive file copying its contents directly to the bootable DH0: mount point on a Physical 2.5: hard drive.

I think if I boot up with a basic WinUAE environment, and say I have full system environment WinUAE hard drive file that I want to copy as DH1: and my empty target physical hard drive as DH2: , there shouldn't be any kind of locking and Im guess I would just do a direct copy from DH1: to DH2:  making sure my target physical mount point is bootable.

Not sure if its that easy or if theres more to this..

Thanks guys/girls :)

Title: Re: WinUAE hdd image to physical hdd
Post by: Thomas on January 27, 2011, 07:27:58 AM

AmigaOS does not do any file locking on the boot partition. You can copy the running system to another HDD. Simply open a shell window and enter

copy xdh0: ydh0: all clone

where xdh0 is the installed source partition and ydh0 is the empty destination partition.

Whether a partition is bootable or not is decided in the partitioning tool (e.g. HDToolbox). There are no files which make a system bootable. You can even boot from an empty partition.

Title: Re: WinUAE hdd image to physical hdd
Post by: darkage on January 27, 2011, 10:44:39 AM

Quote from: Thomas;609637

AmigaOS does not do any file locking on the boot partition. You can copy the running system to another HDD. Simply open a shell window and enter

copy xdh0: ydh0: all clone

where xdh0 is the installed source partition and ydh0 is the empty destination partition.

Whether a partition is bootable or not is decided in the partitioning tool (e.g. HDToolbox). There are no files which make a system bootable. You can even boot from an empty partition.

Thought that was  the  case..

Many thanks for confirming :)