A1200 Hard Disk Replacement and setup.

[grwilliams]

Hi all, I'm another new user to this forum.
I have a pile of Amiga 1200's at work all with faulty HDD's. I've tried replacing these with a standard 2.5" IDE drive. I follow the setup proceedures create a default partition and I end up with two error messages. "Not a valid DOS disk" and "Copy of Work not validated".I'm obviously missing something.
I have managed to rebuild original drives with no problems.
Do standard notebook drives work in the Amiga 1200?

Any help appreciated.

[grwilliams]

Thanks amigakit. I have had success with a 3GB drive this morning. The bigger drives all above 4GB - are still coming up with a "this volume of work not validated" when I try to copy any files to the HD.
Error codes are:
Copy work - disk not validtaed.
Copy failed return code 20.
How do you format the disk with the smart file system?

[grwilliams]

Hi Ali,
We use Amigas in an information display system.Back when the system was designed early 90's the Amigas kicked ass with graphics and price compared to a PC.Eventually the system will be upgraded, but until then we have to keep it going as best we can.
I am using install version 3.1 disks.
Cheers
Graeme.