New hard drive... Help!

[Robert17]

Hey all I'm just putting a laptop hard disk into my A1200 which was previously used for a Win98 machine, I'll need to full format that won't I? Also it's 4.1 gb so I'll need to partition that into two pieces, right? It won't let me split it at the moment so I'm just waiting for the full format which seems to be taking some time..

[Robert17]

scratch that the bloody installer just screwed my copy of workbench grr

[Robert17]

I can't now, it wanted me to not have the WB 3.0 floppy write protected so I took it off write protect and it's screwed it so I'll have to get a new workbench disk from somewhere...

[Robert17]

Well it seems like it needs to be able to have write access to the disks to install it to hard disk, what actually happened was my internal drive makes a hash of writing and totally mashed up disks lol silly me for feeding it... I've ordered a new set of workbench 3.0 disks, this time I''ll back them up and use only my external drive :-P