Read an Amiga Hard Drive on my PC

[Bamiga2002]

I have been thinking of making a backup of my amiga HD. But curious, how can i read my 36GB SCSI-HD (PFS3) with PC on WinUAE?

[Thomas]

jrkenn wrote:
I just got the adf files converted onto my pc. I opened them up in emulation and then copied them over into separate foldes to represent each floppy.

Why ? Why don't you just use the ADFs with WinUAE ?

If I put them on a cd would it be possible to boot my 4000 from a cd or load the OS from the files on the cd?

No, an Amiga can only boot from floppy disks. The only exception is if you have a CyberstormPPC accelerator and a SCSI CD drive connected to the PPC's SCSI bus. Then you can tell it to boot from CD in the PPC's firmware menu.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Bamiga2002 wrote:
I have been thinking of making a backup of my amiga HD. But curious, how can i read my 36GB SCSI-HD (PFS3) with PC on WinUAE?

Just read this thread from the top, it's all in here. Of course you need a SCSI controller in your PC.

Bye,
Thomas

[Bamiga2002]

Ok thanks, i'll read the thread again :-). You say you can boot from a cd only on a CSPPC, but isn't it possible on BPPC too? There is some kind of a boot-option for cd's there too.

[jrkenn]

Finally got my HD formatted. I used another Amiga HD that was in the Amiga and loaded WB 3.1 on there from WinUAE and stuck her in the 4000 and wala!! She booted right up.Only problem now is that the DAMN mouse quit working. I tell you, 5 years of this thing sitting is just too much dead time. It will take forever to get all these bugs workrd out.