Just got my Amiga 4000-D down from the loft..

[sjrsaj]

Hi All,
 
I was a big Amiga fan in the 90's, but decided to see what was lurking in my loft recently (having young kids leave me little time these days to tinker!).  I've cleaned up my Amiga 4000/EC 030, it's in good working order apart from it not booting to the AmigaOS. I believe the original hard drive's haven't lasted . I played some demo's/games and everything else seems fine.
 
I have a spare hard drive, so I plan on using that, just need to find the original AmigaOS disks in the loft!  Does anyone have an easy way of getting the AmigaOS installed, I'm a bit behind the times with what the Amiga 4000 can do now. Just wish I had invested in a network card all those years ago!
 
Just for retro sake, here's a few pictures I took, and yes it does have a DPS Personal Animation Recorder inside it! (PAL)

[sjrsaj]

Thanks for the information, I'll look at plugging the hard drive into my PC and installing it via WinUAE.  If I can't find the original Amiga workbench disks, where's the best place to get them? cheers

[sjrsaj]

I've plugged in a 6GB IDE drive into my PC, and installed WinUAE on to my computer. I found this guide http://wiki.classicamiga.com/How_to_install_SFS_onto_a_real_Harddrive_within_WinUAE
 
Is there an easier way of formatting and setting up
Workbench to then transfer the hard drive on to the Amiga 4000?
 
Cheers
 
EDIT: yay managed to get the 6GB drive formatted (2GB BOOT) and Workbench 3.1 installed and booting fine now
 
Is it worth upgrading to Workbench 3.9 ? (I'm running Kickstart 3.0 rom)

[sjrsaj]

Well I created a 2GB partition for the BOOT partition, and the rest of the hard drive (about 4GB) isn't partitioned yet, so that shouldn't cause problems?
 
If I upgrade now to Workbench 3.9, will it be easy to format the rest of the hard drive as a 4GB data partition.
 
Thanks, and learning again