Thanks, The Wizard board I know is ok as the Squirrel is working. I thought there might be a problem with the Hawk. I know the obvious thing is to pull it out which I can but it was a bit of struggle getting it in and I don’t like disturbing it too much in case of damaging it. May have to though.
My main concern is my whether my suggested way of copying things lets me end up with a drive I can boot from.
No reason to pull out your Hawk board. It is a bit "dumb" since it will automatically assume that the amount of RAM it is configured to have, actually is the amount of RAM that is installed. All you have to do is move the LK1 jumper to get 4MB Fast RAM. You can read more about the Hawk here:
http://amiga.resource.cx/manual/Amitek_Hawk.pdfAs for your backup needs, I can suggest one of my Amiga911 boot disks which contains everything you need for both setting up a new harddisk, and for copying files from a backup. The disk also contains what is needed for using a CF-PCMCIA adapter.
If you need to preserve the Amiga specific file attributes of your system files, you can either add them to a lha archive, or you can create a HDF file in WinUAE, and then copy it to the CF card you use with the CF-PCMCIA adapter. The Aniga911 disk contains software (DiskImage) that can be used for mounting HDF images as virtual drives, which allows you to copy files from/to them.
If you are interested, I think this version of the Amiga911 disk may be suitable for you:
https://www.box.com/s/30snom1sogojovgvfretYou can read more about the Amiga911 disk and the program for creating your own ones here:
http://amiga911maker.site11.com
