Installing Workbench 3.0 onto a HD

[Ilwrath]

Technically, you should also have an "Install 3.0" diskette with your A1200.  The disk contained the tools needed to prep a new or non-Amiga formatted drive.  This diskette came standard with the A1200HD computer, but was NOT included in the early A1200 base models.  

I know, because I bought a new A1200 that had a 160MB Quantum that my dealer installed, and he had to give me a copied A1200 install diskette, as the A1200 didn't ship from C= with the 3.0 Install diskette.  ;-)  

But, if your hard disk is already partitioned, you don't need the install disk, anyhow, and the procedures listed above are fine.  The only tool of use you are missing is the "HDToolBox", and I think it's available free from some places, now, anyhow.

[Ilwrath]

the HD already has HDtoolbox on it, can I just copy this over to a floppy and once i've installed 3.0 just copy it back???

Yeah, that would work.... Maybe even one better would be to make a backup copy of your Workbench 3.0 disk, remove a few files from it (there's some utils in c/ you don't need...) and copy HDToolBox to it.  That way, you'll have a single nice bootable disk with HDToolbox, should disaster ever strike.  

Also, an interesting thing to note on Amiga is that you can write your partition table to a "system-configuration" file.  That can then be backed up on your HDToolBox disk, as well, and if for some reason you ever lose/screw up your partitions, you can boot from the floppy and load the parameters from the backup system-configuration file, and then a simple disk recovery program should be able to save most everything, rather than chalking it up as a total loss of data.