installing hard drive into a1200

[Homer]

Hi, you need to carefully open it up and look to see if you have the hard drive cradle fitted. I assume you have got a 2.5" drive ?? You then need a short cable to fit it to the IDE header.

[Homer]

There are indeed normally a couple of unused pins at one end of the 'dual in line' pins on a 2.5" drive. You must make sure you get the cable in the correct orientation as the 5V is also fed through the cable (while a 3.5" drive has a seperate 'Molex' connector for power).
Do you have a drive preformatted with AmigaOS or do you have the HD install disks ready ?
Can you see a cradle to fit the hard drive inside the A1200 ?
Good luck  :-)

[Homer]

Wow, that guide sure seems to answer the rest of the questions you were going to ask  :lol: Let us know if it works for you  :-)