Amiga, MagicBox, Alphagen, Aavelin

[Greyrock]

Hello group,

Is the Amiga and the MagicBox Alphagen/Aavelin closely or distantly related? I need to clone my Aavelin HD that has 4 partitions for a backup. It's a 40GB WD Caviar, the 4 partitions are 2GB, 541.3MB, 14.7GB and the rest is unallocated. Connecting it to Windows 7 disk management just to inspect it showed the partitions and their sizes but had no file system information, it wouldn't mount either. I have cloning and formatting utilities (both free and paid) to use but I need to start with the proper file format. I know the partitions have to be the same size or larger also. Any thoughts? Thanks!

[Greyrock]

Did you try Clonezilla? I've used it to clone Windows drives and some people here have mentioned that it also works on the Amiga.

I did use Clonezilla! it worked fantastic. I was going above and beyond trying to prep the target drive with the right size and format of partitions only to waste my time. I used Clonezilla in the advanced mode and had to select a few extra options that are not available in the beginner mode. Good thing, it perfectly cloned the drive with the correct formatting, partitions and all data. My MagicBox Aavelin doesn't know the difference. Thanks for all the advise to everyone who responded. BTW, the Aavelin source drive appears to be the "BTFS" file system (according to GParted partition software)

[Greyrock]

Not to derail your thread, but the mention of Clonezilla is a biggie.

Most Amigans don't realize it's platform agnostic and can image any Amiga drives just fine.  I use it regularly to image my OS4, MOS and legacy/emu drives and I've never had a single issue with it.  Should be in any Amigans toolkit if full disk/image based archiving needs doing.

understood. I didn't mention it in my original post, only upon spaceman88's recommendation. Thanks