How should i clone my hardrive?

[Xanxi]

Hi.

I wish to copy all my A1200 hard-drive (10 GB IDE drive, with 3 SFS partitions) onto a 8 GB CF card with CF2IDE adapter.

I thought of connecting both on the same IDE cable for partitioning, formating and copying, but i can't do that because of drives names: if i partition the CF, i can't name the partitions DH0, DH1 and DH2 as i need because the first disk get the same names.
I though also of copying through a cf-pcmcia adapter, but it seems too slow and unreliable.

Any advice on this problem? I would love a tool like Acronis True Image i use on the PC.

Thanks.

[Xanxi]

You can use the same names, the driver will change them automatically if it encounters duplicates. But you can as well use different names and change them later.

And you can as well keep the different names. Why do you think you would have to use the same names on the new HDD? Names are completely irrelevant.

Well, i am speaking of logical names as DH0:, not Workbench: or anything else.

I can't type in a CLI copy all DH0: to DH0: without any confusion.

I could also give the logical name HD0: instead to the new disk, but i prefer to clone properly to not confuse paths and assigns.

[Xanxi]

What about a clean and painless copy through pcmcia?
My CF adapter comes from the finnish fine guy who sells them on EAB and is triangular shaped with female adapter. Thus, it is not simple to plug it on the ide cable along with the original hard drive. Of course i also have a pcmcia-cf adapter.

[Xanxi]

Well, i am stuck anyway, as i can't connect either my IDE-CF nor my IDE-SDHC adapter as slave on the same IDE cable than the hard drive (no jumper at all).

I guess i am going to copy/LHA all through PCMCIA adapters if i can get the CF or the SDHC properly partitionned and formatted in SFS, but i'm afraid it will take a long time (DH0: is only 100 MB but the two other partitions are several GB).

[Xanxi]

Why not connect your HDD to your PC and do all your work in WinUAE?

Because i only have PC laptops, so no IDE messing, and it doesn't not seem to work with Amikit over USB.

On the 1200, it seems i can't partition and format my 8GB CF, it always fall back on FAT.
I would like to create 3 partitions in SFS. I have of course installed the SFS filesystem with HDInstools and compact-flash.Device.


EDIT: i have partitionned the CF on the PCMCIA using pccard.device instead of compactflash.device, then copied files to the new partitions, but all the datas disappeared on the next reset.

[Xanxi]

If anyone got an idea, i am still stuck.

Summary of what i have:
-10 GB internal IDE hardrive with 3 partitions
-IDE female CF adapter with 8 GB CF
- PCMCIA CF adapter

I can' t connect the hardrive and the CF adapter on the same IDE cable but i need to move evrything from the HD to the CF. Partionning the CF with the PCMCIA adapter does not give reliable results, as everything disappear on the next boot.

And i can't use WinUAE as i only have PC laptops.

What sould i do??

[Xanxi]

get a longer cable with three plugs on it so you can plug in both disk and CF at once

I can't. The CF adapter is a female plug and do not have any jumper to set it as slave. It is the special triangular shaped adapter made by a finnish guy from EAB.

[Xanxi]

I also only have a laptop and it worked perfectly... It's even a weirder setup because I run OSX with VMware on it with Windows7. In Windows7 I connect my SanDisk CF reader with CF disk in it. Start WinUAE as "Administrator", add the disk as a physical disk.

Voila ;-)

You mean you connect your CF with USB? Could you be more specific in how to add the disk? I'm not really familiar with winuae and only use amikit.

[Xanxi]

To solve this riddle you need a second Compact Flash card!

Yes, if i can't succeed otherwise i will have to buy another IDE-CF adapter that can be connected together with the HD.

[Xanxi]

People, you were all right about WinUAE, it is very easy to add hard-drives, even on USB. I have messed a bit with the settings and succeedded in cloning my HD with Amikit.

Bad luck, all that was only to found the Mika's CFangled adapter is faulty.
I'm going to redo all the process for my SDHC and IDE-SDHC adapter.