How do I get Amiga filesystem recognized by Windows?

[Colani1200]

lou_dias wrote:
for some reason, it doesn't work
the drive is in the device manager but no drive letter in Explorer

This won't work because there's no Amiga Filesystem driver for Windows. The only way is to use WinUAE.

and I start WINUAE with the harddrivesafteycheckoff and it only lists my other 2 hard drives

I have the same problem. I suspect that it simply doesn't work with certain USB adaptors. Maybe you can try a 3,5" -> 2,5" IDE adaptor instead, they're pretty cheap on ebay. It's just a guess that this will work, I haven't tried myself (yet).

[Colani1200]

lou_dias wrote:

Which is amazing 16 years after FFS was developed...

Yeah, but it's crappy Windows after all. Maybe none of the Amigans wanted to develop for it. :-) There are FFS drivers for e.g. Linux and NetBSD, but I think they're experimental and you can only mount FFS partionion r/o. (At least this is the case when I run NetBSD 3.01 on my A1200.)