Amiga HD in WinUAE PC?

[ckillerh3]

Hi -

I'm putting together an Amiga Forever / WinUAE
machine.  From my previous post you can learn
about how I set-up my CatWeasl IV card.

I read that I can pull a drive from a vintage
Amiga (I've got an A4K) and stuff it into the PC
running Amiga Forever / WinUAE.  Are there tips
and suggestions on the particulars of doing this
somewhere?

I tried doing this but Windoze XP would not recognize
the IDE drive.  When I insisted that it see the drive it
make a change that wiped the drive of info. Also WinUAE
would not see it.  Also I put a ZIP drive with a FFS
formated ZIP disk on the system as well but WinUAE would
not see that either.  I must be missing something !

I'm trying to re-build the drive information using
DiskSalve III . . it looks like its all there but
its OK if its not (all backedup to a ZIP drive anyway).

Any thoughts or real world experiences are appreciated.

[ckillerh3]

Thank you, everybody !

I blew away my Amiga 4000 (spare) drive all ready by trying to get WinXP to recognze it from the management utility referenced above.  Mistake !  However, I will re-image the drive from my other A4000 drive (always back-up) and try again with your tips.  

Again, many thanks ! I'll post how it works out later.