Help with my amiga 1200 with cf

[danbeaver]

Well, in 26 years of Amiga use I've never used windows to do an install, so bare with me; can you get a boot menu (hold down both mouse buttons)?  If so, can you boot without startup-sequence?  If so, have you typed into the CLI console command by command until you get a failure? Usually it is a device that fails mounting or a bad monitor file or some dodgy patch. But you havent given out enough information to help

[danbeaver]

For a straight Amiga install, I start with the five OS 3.1 floppy disks booting from the "Install" disk and follow the on screen instructions; from 3.1 you can get a CD ROM working and install OS 3.9 from the CD. There are other ways via the web (AmigaSYS, for example) to get there where you can download stuff, but even without WinUAE you can transfer from a PC to an Amiga (via your CF). I keep a complete install on a CF partition of OS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, and 4.1 just in case. I WHDLoad after booting into a clean 3.1 partition.