Argghhh...rkauer? Somebody help...

[guru-666]

start by telling us exactly what you need to do.

[guru-666]

hmmm, any reason you can do this ON the Amiga with out having to take it out and mount in into a pc.. that would make things a bit more simple?

[guru-666]

double post --- sorry ---

[guru-666]

I see. Interesting. Sounds like you already have a backup of your HD's, so thats good.  Now you want to use winUAE to do the work that the Amiga used to do until you get the Amiga fixed..or replace it all together.

So now you want to format the HD with winUAE... no idea.

your Amiga it will not boot? Because it still easier to do what you want on an Amiga, since you not using your original HD, there is ZERO risk of loosing your data.  Not to say that it impossible but some things are easy if you don't need to trick windows into doing something that it does not do at all.  I would fix one problem at a time, first order get the 4000 into a working condition with a NEW hd and new os, otherwise it is just one huge mess.

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BTW the final goal of running the thing on winUAE may still be possible but I feel like you are skipping some steps and making this harder than it needs to be.

patients .. you will get this working

[guru-666]

attach the HD to the amiga, insert the install disk form the 3.1 or 3.0 wb disk set and use hdtools.  very simple.

with out the the 3.1 disk set things get difficult.  FAST.
that was one of the cool things about Amiga, you can boot form a floppy.. and still store a few utilities on there to work!
have somebody make you a copy of the 3.1 install set, since you have the 3,9 cd you already OWN it.  (don't let any overly uptight amigas tell you otherwise).  depending on your funds and connections it may be worth buying a set from amikit... it expensive but at least he "sells" them still. The trick agin is you NEED an amiga to make this disks.  If nobody here beats me to the punch I can send you a set... but I need to fix my 4000 tower before I can do that.

when working with amigos it still important to have all the low level tools on disks.