It Lives!!!!

[andy82i]

Ok so Ive got my spare 20GB laptop hard drive in a USB contoller & Ive managed to get UAE to partition & format it (its doing it right now)ready for me to install OS3.9. All I need now is for my 3.1 roms to get here & hopefully Ill be all set!
Things never go as planned though... Ive had to spend half my time sorting out one of my XP machines. Its decided to have hard drive trouble.

Thanks to everyone for your help  :-)

[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.

[andy82i]

Thanks for the tip amije.
Ive got this far so there is no way Ill give up now. Thats one of the things I used to love about using my A1200 - figuring out why things dont work the way I want them to & making them work as well as I could.
I just cant wait for royal mail to get a move on so I can get everything together.

[andy82i]

My OS3.1 roms came today. Found them on the floor behind the door when I got home from work. I ran upstairs & pulled my A1200 to bits & stuck them in place along with the OS3.9 hard drive I prepared in UAE. After a couple of changes to the prefs & DOSDrivers It booted & gave me a perfect OS3.9!!  :-D  :-D  :-D It even feels quicker than OS3.0 did so Im really happy!!

A BIG thank you to everyone who helped me out with this!