Amiga Drives and Windows

[Morley]

Lost_Amigo wrote:
I would like any comments
from those that have WinXp or is it Win2000? and Amiga
hardrives connected and working or problems?
I have all my Amiga Hardrives with OS's installed
and would really like to use my old HDs, UAE/Forever with Windows.
Currently I have WinME and know Amiga HD's Cannot be used :-(

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Well, I don't think you can access them directly from Windows, but with winuae you can boot from your old HDD's just like they were sitting in your Amiga. You can even create a virtual Amiga partition/drive on a directory on fat/ntfs hdd's, so you can copy files back and forth from the pc<->amihga from within winuae. It all works very neat and flawless, at least I am very impressed!

[Morley]

Jope wrote:
Yep, don't connect them.. Win9x (ME is 9x) will write over parts of the RDB on startup.. It's fixable, but I don't know off the top of my head other software that fixes it than Amithlon.

WinME does this without warning or asking questions?

When I connected my Amiga-harddrives to my XP-box, it really wanted to "initialize" or "install" the disk, which I fortunately denied it to do. Everything worked like a charm on Winuae, and they worked when I threw them back in my 4000. Golden rule I think is to just connect them, and not mess around at all with them from Windows. Just access them from the Winuae side.