HDF file wont boot in Winuae

[mcnab69]

Interesting idea, yes I can

Saved the RDB to a zip, I loaded Winuae mounted the saved zip as an archive along with TSGUI. Selected the Raw Device in TSGUI, restored the saved RDB over the top of the HDF file after reading the warning (i was working on a backup .HDF anyway) and tried to boot but it said not a DOS disk in DH0 this time. Not sure if thats what you meant to try?

Ive attached the saved RDB from the Amiga for you.

Can you "save RDB to file" on the real Amiga?

If yes, what happens if you use this saved RDB to "restore RDB from file" in WinUAE?

[mcnab69]

Thanks Thomas, that does seem to be the case, but still doesnt explain why Winuae wont boot from the the Amiga hard drive when connected to the PC via USB? do you think it needs a full IDE connection instead? (somewhere I think I have a 40>44 pin IDE cable lying around)

At the end of the day I just want to backup the Amiga, quickly, reliably and easily, but if it means just keeping a copy of the files via Compact Flash, that would have to suffice. I don't have a parallel port on my PC anymore to use my old Paradise cable, so the options I have are limited.

The RDB is of not much use because it's obviously correct.

The experiment shows that the HDF is not accurate. Something went wrong either with dd or when you transferred the HDF from the Mac to the PC.

I would suggest that you create a new HDF on the PC or on the Amiga. The one you have is unusable and I doubt that it can be repaired easily.

[mcnab69]

Yes, if I dont, it doesnt list any drives to select from

Do you run WinUAE as administrator? It needs administrator rights to access real harddrives.

[mcnab69]

have tried different IDE adapters as well. Seems WinUAE just isnt going to work on the PC with my Amiga HD.

Not to worry, my 4GB CF arrived yesterday, so I'm using EasyADF to backup each partition to an .LHA file to the card which will suffice as a backup. I see what you mean about taking ages though, but its getting there

Thanks again for all your help and advice, much obliged

Perhaps the USB adapter is the culprit. Do you have another one?

[mcnab69]

managed to copy over the .LHA files (took about 2.5 hours altogether) form the CF to my PC, now I can access everything, brilliant

Not to worry, my 4GB CF arrived yesterday, so I'm using EasyADF to backup each partition to an .LHA file to the card which will suffice as a backup. I see what you mean about taking ages though, but its getting there

[mcnab69]

managed to copy over the .LHA files (took about 2.5 hours altogether using EasyADF to compress on the Amiga) and then copied them from the CF to my PC, now I can access everything as if I was using the Amiga, brilliant

Not to worry, my 4GB CF arrived yesterday, so I'm using EasyADF to backup each partition to an .LHA file to the card which will suffice as a backup. I see what you mean about taking ages though, but its getting there