Getting my large hard disk working on A1500

[AmigaFun]

Hello

I have post before regarding getting my 40Gig drive up and running and still have had no success. I have done a lot of searching around and on here and other sites and am sure it should work.
My aim is to have my 40Gb drive in my A1500 via a Buddha IDE controller with WB 3.9 on it (or 3.5 if it's compatiable with +40gig drives). Either way I want to lend up with a desktop that looks like the one on the Classic Amiga workbench pack for UAE.
So I tried formatting on my PC so so I could use WinUAE to see the drive and install WB, that did not work. I have now plugged it into my A1200 which has WB3.9 and now have ended up with 20 or so desktop icons for the drive (all with no default tool).I thought WB3.9 was ok with large drives and imagined that I would partition the drive with say 1 or 2GB partition for the WB install and the rest for games and stuff.
Please, can someone help give me some advice on this. I hope to upgrade my 2GB drive in my A1200 in the same way if this works.

I thank you.

[AmigaFun]

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Why did you create so many partitions ?
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I didn't. It seems the WB3.9 somehow did, unless I did it but don't know how.

Just downloaded SFS, hope to try now. Will post my results.

Thank you Thomas

[AmigaFun]

I think I did it. I have plugged the drive into my PC and using WinUAE it shows up now as having 37GB free with 9,693KB in use. If I do a 'Info' on the drive it says the file system is FFS. I am unable to partition it in WinUAE as the HDTool box does not save the 'uaehf.device' tooltype. What should I try ? Do I plug into my 1500 to install WB3.1/3.9 or use WinUAE to install WB?

[AmigaFun]

I have (I hope) partitioned the drive now in WinUAE. Thing is I have clean forgot how I did it. I have just posted the question in the Emulation forum about that.
I should add also that I installed WB3.9 on the A1500 and it does not like it one bit. So I hope to use one of Bloodwych's WB packs to make a good stable system from.
Thanks guys for the assistance.

..AmigaFun..

Martin