Amiga HDD Cable setup

[Karlos]

Hmm.

If you have a 2.5 inch drive, a standard 44-way (for 2.5" drives) IDE cable should be all you need. The IDE header on the 1200 motherboard has all 44 pins. Make sure you connect the ribbon the right way around though, it's possible to get it the wrong way around.

You only need a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch cable and molex connectors for power if you intend to fit a 3.5 inch drive.

[Karlos]

Can you hear if the drive is powering upp? Does it still boot from floppy when the HD is attached?

Assuning you've not got an OS installed yet, I wouldn't expect the drive to be useable. It'll need partitioning and installing.

[Karlos]

What you ideally need is a bootable floppy that you can run the HDToolbox from. Then you can make an initial partition in the lowest 4GB of the drive and make it bootable, quick format it and see about installing an OS on it.

You could do that from the PC with UAE with the right cable, I expect.