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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Sutty100 on August 23, 2011, 10:04:59 PM
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Ok stupid question I imagine but I cant seem to get it to work. I have burned some ADF's to a cd and copied them from the CD to my Amigas hard drive. Now I want to put one from the HD to a floppy disk but when I simply format the floppy and drag and drop the ADF from the HD to the floppy it copies so much then says disk full. When I try and boot from the floppy it doesn't work. I have always used Amiga explorer to make adf floppies but thought this method would be quicker, what am I doing wrong!?
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Get the program ADF Blitzer for that... :)
Should be free on AmiNet
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I have always used Amiga explorer to make adf floppies but thought this method would be quicker, what am I doing wrong!?
When using Workbench if you drag the adf to the floppy it will try to copy the adf as a file. You instead need to write the adf directly to the disk. There are numerous tools for this, for example tsgui (http://aminet.net/package.php?package=disk/misc/tsgui.lha).
It's quite easy to assume Workbench would work the same way as Amiga Explorer does, but here it doesn't.
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Yep, I highly suggest TsGUI as well!
What you want to do is go into Command Line and type:
Mount RAD:
This will set aside part of your RAM to use as a virtual Floppy disk.
You then load up TsGUI and well...
...the rest should be VERY obvious.
Select your RAD Drive.
Select ADF.
Write to RAD.
Or if you are using a real floppy, then select DF0 instead and forget everything I just said about RAD. :)
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Brilliant thanks for that will give it a go in a bit!