Format Harddrive to Amiga F.S. in Windows?

[AmigaHeretic]

The goal is to use it in Winuae and be able to put it back in my amiga's of course.

If you do have an Amiga, my thought would be to format it on the real thing using, FFS, PFS, or SFS..which ever you prefer. (I uses SFS and thinks it's awsome)

After it's formated(and put back into the WinUAE machine) you should be able to use it in WinUAE.  Windows won't recognize the drive at all (won't assign it a letter and it won't show up when you click on MyComputer).  But WinUAE will be able to see it when you set WinUAE up to use a real Amiga formatted HD.  

I just suggest this way as I haven't tried and I 'm not sure if you can just take a non Amiga formatted HD and format in WinUAE.

Good luck.

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

Do you believe that after reading something reliable that says it can do that? Otherwise I seriously doubt it will work, because it would require WinUAE to reinvent the wheel in disk access for itself, and probably would require admin privs to run on NT/2k/XP.

This is how my XP system works.  I have a 40 gig HD for XP and a 6 gig drive that is Amiga formatted.  The 6 gig drive doesn't show up anywhere in XP.  XP doesn't recognize it all.  WinUAE is the only thing that recognizes it.  When you go into the WinUAE setup for using an Amiga drive, there is a drop down box that you click on and it shows only the 6 gig drive and nothing else.  It boots right off the drive.  I have WinUAE setup so it shows the XP hard drive too.  I can then copy what I want from the XP drive to the Amiga drive ( I use Dopus 4 which I love)  and then I can hook the drive back up to my A1200 and use it on there too.

As far as the new versions of WinUAE not working on NT4, my experience with that is they don't.  I had NT4 at work and the newest version that would work was 0.8.8.  No jit so it was just too slow.  The company updated to Windows 2000 in December and I have tried installing the lasted WinUAE and it won't work on that either.  I get an error message that it's trying to look for some DirectX 8 DLL file.  The version of Win2000 at work only has DirectX 7 on it and I haven't tried to updated DirectX at work..yet

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

@mikeymike

Good to hear DirectX should update O.k.  The other thing I'm worried about with updating DX on Win2k is getting in trouble at work  The company doesn't really like us messing with 'their' computers too much.  But it would be nice to have an Amiga setup at work  

@decore

I've been using SFS version 1.195 for a while now with no problems.  The newest version I believe is 1.205.   The main advantages for me are longer file names (over a 100 characters to FFS's less than 40), large hard drive support (greater than 4 gig), and then the 'no more invalidated disks'.  I've had no validation problems or lost data after the computer has crashed during disk access since I've started using SFS.    I have never had any problems using SFS.  I'd say SFS works a charm

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

Here's a link for the latest version 1.205 ( 205 is newer than 93 as in the version 1.93) of SFS.   I think the author considers all the version so far as 'Beta'.  (i.e. Their are no non-beta versions--but I could be wrong about that)  

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~aminet/disk/misc/SFS.lha

AmigaGuy