A2000 hard drive image

[James1095]

I repaired an Amiga 2000 for someone but the ancient 5.25" hard drive was in bad shape and deteriorated further to the point that I'm unable to recover anything useful from it. This machine has a Commodore 68030 accelerator card and a 2901(?) SCSI card in it and I think the ROM is Kickstart 2.0 but I'd have to check for sure. Does anyone have a hard drive image with Workbench and whatnot that I could write to another drive and pop it in this thing without having to go through the whole setup process and install everything individually? I have a few assorted SCSI drives I can use, ranging from 50MB to 72GB. The drive that died was 60MB and had workbench, a tracker with a bunch of MOD files and looked like a few games and utilities from way back when this thing was in use.

[James1095]

Well I already have the software, or had it until the bits rotted away on the drive. I even have a set of original Workbench floppies, I was just hoping to save the effort of going through the whole setup process, I'm not looking for a bunch of sketchy pirated stuff. Connecting the drive to my PC and imaging or mounting it in WinUAE is trivial, I already did that with the drive from my A3000 but that install is a bit of a mess too.

[James1095]

Well I pulled one of the drives out of the A3000 since I plan to use a bigger drive in that anyway and cleaned it off, it works just fine in the A2000 but I couldn't figure out how to install Workbench, I must be missing the disk with the installer. At any rate the machine worked fine and I had fixed all the hardware issues - cleaned up the battery damage, replaced the CPU socket, replaced the ancient 5.25" hard drive, fixed the blown mouse fuse, verified that it boots fine off floppies and plays games. Not wanting to sit on it any longer I gave it back to the owner and figured he can work on the software side if he wants.

As much as I love the Amiga, I've been spoiled by modern PCs in this respect. Pop in a CD/DVD, boot up the OS, partition/format/install, it's so painless in comparison. On the other hand, I still remember having to load Debug and use g=c800:5 on the old PC/XT boxes to do a low level format on the MFM drive, I don't miss that.