Swap HDD Amiga to Amiga

[sweetface]

I am having joystick trouble with one of my a1200s and I have another a1200 that is fine with the joystick. So to get at least one up and running good for my son for the moment, I want to take the hard drive from one and put it in the good one. Is there anything I need to know? Do I need drivers (I don't think I have them), can I just plug it in and it will still have the data on it? I have no cluse and I need to get it right. :-?

[sweetface]

If you mean unexpanded then yes they both are. They are both similar spec so the power thing shouldn't be a problem.

[sweetface]

Oh No I've hit a problem! After just switching on the good Amiga, it won't run any floppies. The disk drive just makes 3 machine noises and the screen goes back to 'the floppy going in'. I even tried the Workbench disks and they didn't work Either. Do you think I need a new internal drive for it? I cant imagine that it's the floppies at fault.
I am planning to get an accelerator too. I didn't know A500 power supply would be that powerful.

[sweetface]

OK so I've swapped the floppy drive and HDD over to the better machine. The floppy works but the purple screen with the floppy going in appears instead of the Workbench loaded on the HDD. I loaded Workbench with a floppy and the HDD does not show up. Do you think I plugged it in wrong? There were I think two pins on the end of HDD that would not fit the cable. When I took it out maybe I didn't put it back right. I thought there should have been enough pins for the cable. It worked OK in the other machine though. I'm Stumped :-?

[sweetface]

I think I know the problem then. It must have been the four pins. Actually, there was also one pin bent in, it looked like it was done intentionally. Does anyone know why that would be? I'll open up again and reattach the cable and let you know if it works or not. :-D

[sweetface]

I checked out the cable for the hard drive, taking care about those four pins and now it works great. I had to fiddle about with the floppy drive though because it wouldn't sit quite right and every time I closed up the case would stop the floppy ffrom coming out! so in the end I had to leave that side of the Amiga a little loose. Problem solved. And the joystick works perfectly at last.

I have a few questions still. I found a disk called relokick1.3 and was wondering how I use that? Also found another disk kickstart2.0 which states it only works with 1.2/1.3. I think it's something to do with games. Will they allow me to play my a500 plus games too? How do I use them.

Also I want to put some of my games on HDD how do I do that? If HDToolbox is used for this, I can't get it to work :cry:  What is WHDload? I don't have it, could I get this with instructions?