Getting data from PC to Amiga

[lofstudio]

ddniUK wrote:
KillerGorilla from EAB collated this wiki article. I have used it many times.

http://wiki.abime.net/amiga:killergorilla_sfs_winuae_realhdd?s=real%20hdd

Good luck.

I tried this,  but the "Add Hard Drive" button was ghosted out. One site suggested running WinUAE with the -disbaleharddrivesafetycheck option to activate the button, which didn't work.

I'm running WinUAE on a Vista Boot Camp partition on an Intel iMac. The drive in question is connected via FireWire and shows up fine in Vista. I assume that because the drive is "removable," I won't be able to format it and set it up under WinUAE?

[lofstudio]

Thomas wrote:

WinUAE has to be run as administrator for direct harddisk access. On WinXP is is sufficient to have an administrator account. On Vista you have to right-click the icon and choose "run as administrator". Or change the shortcut's properties to always run as administrator.

Thanks for the information. I set WinUAE (and AMiKit) to run as administrator, and the button activates. Unfortunately, the external HD does not appear in the resulting dropdown list. I'm guessing the drive has to be internal.