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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: PGit on April 16, 2004, 01:06:50 PM

Title: Transferring files
Post by: PGit on April 16, 2004, 01:06:50 PM

I've purchased a new hard drive for my A1200 (no tower). I have about 200mb or so of files that i would like to transfer from the old hard drive. I was planning on putting them on disks and copying to the PC then back to rthe new harddisk, however that is going to be rather laborious (and need a hell of a lot of disks), can anyone reccomend a better method?

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: SilvrDrgn on April 16, 2004, 02:53:10 PM

Hook both hard drives to the A1200 at the same time.  Simply copy between them after you partition and format the new one.

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: Thomas on April 16, 2004, 03:00:58 PM

Connect both drives to the Amiga and copy the files directly.

Connect your Amiga per serial cable to the PC and use monitor programs (NComm, Hyperterm) to transfer files.

Connect your Amiga to the PC per ethernet and use the network to transfer files.

Connect the HDDs to the PC and use WinUAE to copy files or to write them to CD-R.

Connect the CD-R drive to the Amiga.

Use the serial or ethernet connection with AmigaExplorer to transfer files.

Send the files to your mailbox by e-mail and receive the mail when the new hdd is installed.

There are lots of possibilities.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: PGit on April 16, 2004, 05:42:23 PM

Thanks for your help. When connecing a second HD can I use the floppy drive's IDE port?

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: SilvrDrgn on April 16, 2004, 06:26:52 PM

The floppy port is not IDE.  You do not hook hard drives to it.  You need to have an IDE cable with three connectors on it.  One for each of the hard drives, and one to connect to the IDE port (not floppy port).

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: Matt_H on April 16, 2004, 06:27:29 PM

No! That's not an IDE port! Something will break if you try to attach a hard drive to it. You need to get a new IDE cable with three connectors on it - One will go to the motherbaord, one to your old drive, and the last to your new drive.

Another solution is to get a 4x IDE adaptor and 2 IDE cables. Should have the same result.

Also make sure your power supply can handle having 2 drives in the machine.

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: PGit on April 16, 2004, 07:38:53 PM

The old drive is 3.5" and the new one is 2.5", is that going to make connecting them both to the A1200 harder?

The PSU is the standard A1200 one.

Again thanks for the advice.

Title: Re: Transferring files
Post by: SilvrDrgn on April 16, 2004, 08:16:39 PM

Yes.  You're going to need either one or two cables depending on the connectors available on each.  If using two cables, then you're going to need one of those buffered IDE hardware add-ons like PowerIDE (or called something similar to that).