Wiped?

[branney]

Hi, I had an A1200 from 1993 to 2000, then suddenly there was no grahpics output.

I had 1.6GB of stuff, so I bought another A1200 off eBay. The guy thought the floppy did not work, but when I got it it worked fine! So I tried to mount my 1.6GB HDD, and ended up wiping the partition info in HDToolbox.

I remember an old data recovery program I used once after a crash during defrag. Anyone know the name? Is it on Aminet? Can I run it with WinUAE?

I am hoping to get the stuff all on emulation, then I will sell my PPC card etc, so any help appreciated!

[branney]

i am afraid i dont have the partition info. but thanks very much for the link! now, the 2nd problem...

winuae will not recognise the HDD because it is not already amiga formatted (since i wiped the rdb). the pc does not seem to power the 2.5" drive i also tried (out of interest) - is a power cable missing from 3.5" specs?

i have A1200 with working floppy, wb3.0
i am not sure if the IDE interface works. i also have eyetech ide buffer from when i had a cd-rom. dont know if it still works either

i know which way to stick the red pin 1 on the ide cable to the HDD, but which way is pin 1 on the amiga? i have a feeling it is top-right (towards power supply)

it has been a long time, so some stupid questions. i have 2 options...

1. is crossdos built in to workbench? how do i mount/activate it? should i then format a floppy to 720k and put on rdb program, then run from a floppy workbench?

2. i could attempt to install workbench on the old 2.5" drive i have, then use the interface to run the 3.5" alongside. do you think this is more complicated still?

thanks for the help guys. i forgot how great the amiga community was!