« on: June 16, 2007, 03:05:36 AM »
I've never done it with an IDE hard drive, but I have done it with SCSI hard drives from my Amiga 2000's successfully.
I not only got WinUAE to recognize the SCSI drive on my WinXP machine which has an Adaptec SCSI controller, but also was able to boot from it.
Make sure your IDE drive is connected to one of the 4 IDE ports inside your computer. I don't think you'll be able to do it via an external USB connection.

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