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[amigagr]

what do you mean ''the best way''? there is only one way to do it. insert the cd and go, if you have a cdrom driver of course! make an emergency floppy and boot from it. install the latest smartfilesystem from aminet create partitions to the hd, the first no more than 512mb-1gb and you are ready to go!

[amigagr]

andy82i wrote:
Hi!
Thanks for the quick reply.
none of my Windows machines read DD floppys.


they do but they don't read amiga floppys


Would installing from UAE work with a USB IDE controller?

i'm not sure what you mean but you can do this: connect the hd to the pc, run winuae and with HDToolbox partition the disk, mark the first partition as bootable and format all the partitions.
all these through winuae, the hd must be formated in the amiga way. after this, copy all the files from your virtual amiga disks/partitions to the partitions on the real disk. unplug the hd from the pc plug it to the amiga and try to boot..........

[amigagr]

http://de4.aminet.net/hard/drivr/3c589.lha

some of them yes with this driver but you need a lot of other software too, tcp/ip etc.

[amigagr]

the winxp don't formating the dd disks directly but you can do it from a dos prompt, or from your amiga with crossdos, but in your case this is not what you want.

uae is a virtual amiga so it will format the hard disk drive as if this drive was connected on a real amiga.

[amigagr]

good luck pal :-)

[amigagr]

you have to consider this: maybe the a1200 crash at the boot time in the begining because of special configuration of the os to run well with winuae. i mean maybe you have to do some work with the s:startup-sequence script and some tools that run from wbstartup. you have to put the pal or ntsc monitor driver to the devs:monitors and to setup the amiga to use a native screen mode and not a picasso96-uae one. and maybe one or two things here and there, so don't disappoint and don't give up if things don't go ok from the start:) don't forget to mark as bootable the partition that will house the workbench too.