My Amiga 2000...

[TomJ]

what kind of ticking noise a lot of old hard drives make noise. does everything run fiine or maybe seem a little slow because its old and thing ran louder back then. I still agree back up everything asap though.
 
if you don't like the parnet idea you can get a copy of amiga forever and a null modem cable or go to there website to check out the options get the http://www.amigaforever.com/tutorials/migration/

[TomJ]

Amiga OS can benefit from logical partitions.  It might be one the best organized (and most user accessible) OSes available.

Multiple small partitions allow flexibility in running and trying different OS configurations and different versions.  Unless you are well versed in AmigaOS, backing your boot partition (to another partition or drive) can have advantages.

Also, separating static partitions (those that are written less frequently) from Apps that are constantly writing and revising small files might greatly facilitate data recovery when the HD eventually fails.

I agree if you put the 1.3 compatible programs in one partition and 3.1 compatible in another you will already have it sorted when moving it WinUAE or set up your partitions like the HDF's you would want to run in WinUAE assuming that's what you want to do.

[TomJ]

Yeah I've try many different variations of baud and packet size. I run the Amiga shell command and start the AE Setup side of things but it doesn't send any packets and then fails. What is weird is that I cannot cancel the Amiga side (it says to press CTRL-C) no matter what I do. I usually reboot the machine and try again. Yes, I'm running Windows XP on the PC side.

I am currently using a DE9-DE9 cable and a DE9-DB25 adapter, with a DB25-DB25 null-modem adapter and a DB25-DB25 cable - so maybe that's half the issue. I can also use a DE9-DE9 null-modem cable with the DE9-DB25 adapter and a DB25-DB25 cable so there is only one adapter between the 2 cables.

I am trying to get hold of a multimeter so I can test the pin-outs at the ends of  the cables... failing that I will build my own cable (DE9-DB29 directly).

Check your com ports if you have 2 make sure your hooked to com1. if you have already done that then check in device manger on the pc to make sure your drivers are installed. Beyond that is beyond me at this point.

I have 3.1 roms and kickstart version40.63 workbench version 40.42 I just go to the amiga explorer Icon and doubleclick(double clicking again stops it on the amiga side) after it starts on the amiga i open it from the pc.(with xp pro sp3)