switching from Amiga to PC (no soul overboard )

[Kronos]

Well thats easy ......

You will need WinUAE.

Install that on the Laptop.
Use the transom-tool to make a snapshot of your A1200's ROM (or google for it).

Find a way to transfer the contents of your HD to the Laptop.

[Kronos]

Transfering file can easily be done with a Null-Modem cable, assuming
your Laptop isn't to new to features that an archaic think as a serial-port.

[Kronos]

The transrom-tool is included in the WinUAE-package, and is run in the
Amiga-Shell. Don't forget to redirect the output  :-o

"transrom >kick.rom" will leave a file kick.rom in the current dir and you
will need to transfer that to the PC. But honestly useing google is the
easier way to obtain such a file  :-D

@some_pop_gal
AFAIK you can't format 720k with XP, but it should be able to read them.
So one would need to format it on the Amiga.

But is still think a serial link would be easier, use "Term" on the Amiga,
and something similar on the XP-side.

[Kronos]

Goto the "storage"-drawer on your workbench, open "dosdrivers", and doubleclick "PC0". Might need a diskchange, but after that it should regognize the disk, with whatever name Win assigned to it.

You can now safely ignore the DF0:, and drop files into the other one.

If you want to have it activated on every boot, you must move "PC0" to the "dosdrivers"-drawer inside the "devs"-drawer on your workbench.

[Kronos]

Well, "PCO" IS CrossDos  :-P  :-P  :-P

Just put the file on the disk, throw it into the WinUAE-drawer on your laptop, start WinUAE, select the file, and let the emulated Amiga boot.

This should give you that old animated disk-drive, you may have seen
if you ever had an Amiga without HD.

Next step would be transfereing your WB.