WinUAE, XP and FFS formatted Amiga HDDs

[Morley]

gaddar wrote:
Yu should use Harddrives, Addharddrives and if it's a harddrive and it is for the title of this discussion, you need to check read&write option, as well.

But very first step might be the XP part. You should make sure that XP recognizes your drive. You can solve this through add hardware wizard, but never and ever format it on XP, otwerwise you will lose your data.

Take it easy..not a big deal..

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!! STOP!!! :-x

Don't EVER make XP initiate or install the disk, for that causes XP to partition the disk, and maybe wiping out the RDB in the process. All you have to do is make sure the harddrive is recognized in the bios, and then make sure XP does not touch the harddrive at all on startup. Then it's just a matter of letting WinUAE know which harddrive to use. If you let XP initiate/install the drive, it has then written a RDB to the drive so WinUAE cannot use it, (and neither can your dead A1200T or any other Amiga)

[Morley]

Thanks for the warning.... Luckily I didn't change any BIOS settings,

Oh, sorry if you misunderstood, but the BIOS-settings aren't dangerous at all. It's the add-hardware-wizard in XP that asks to install the drive, that wants to erase that precious RDB. Just press cancel when it prompts and asks if you want to add the drive to the system.