Mark wrote:
wobbly wrote:
Sorry to bring up an old thread.
Am I risking anything [beyond normal reason - afterall, my Amiga hard drives must be >10 years old..] - namely my data on my hard drives - if i connect them up to a pc, one that i intend to run Amithlon on?
I guess i'm asking if is it safe to plug in my Amiga hard drives!
Absolutely not, if you also use Windows. Apparently, Windows writes to the first block of any disk drive it doesn't understand. This damages the RDB of an Amiga formatted drive so it can't be read by a real Amiga anymore. The problem is discussed here,
This is only true for the Win95/98/ME versions of Windows. If you use XP or 2K you will be fine.
Just slave your Amiga drive to the PC boot drive and then load up WinUAE (there is an option to find Amiga Disks). You can then copy the data over to your UAE system or, like me, to the WinUAE file system HD emulation.
