Read an Amiga Hard Drive on my PC

[jrkenn]

I seem to remember reading how to hook up an amiga hard drive to my PC and reading the drive through one of the emulators. Is this possible? My Amiga has crashed and I need to read the contents of the hard drive.

I need to somehow make a bootup disk also.

Thanks for any help, I am sort of confused on some of this but some things are coming back to me from years ago.

Rick

[skurk]

Yup, WinUAE can use the original Amiga drive.  I even partitioned, formatted and installed the 2.5" hdd for my A4000 using WinUAE.  Just make sure you don't touch it with a partition manager or anything, that could f@#!k everything up.

[dfreniche]

Just use Linux and Linux FFS driver

[jrkenn]

Ok Great. I do have winUAE and Amiga Forever. I also have the latest version of WinUAE but how do you get the drive to show up in WinUAE because windows does not see the drive?

[DrValkyer]

This may help!  http://valwit.net/uaehde.html

[DrValkyer]

BTW if you are going to make a new formated partition remember to use a newer filesystem, like SmartFileSystem (SFS)  http://strohmayer.org

[ChrisH]

Go to the Settings/Hardware section, select the Hard drives tab, click "Add Hard Drive...", now find your harddisk amoung the list given, enable read/write if you are feeling brave, then click "Add hard drive".

If you want to *create* an Amiga partition on non-Amiga formatted HD, then you will need to use a console command when launching WinUAE, as otherwise WinUAE does not show it for safety reasons.

[jrkenn]

Thanks for all the help but it looks like the HD is Fubar.
I did get it hooked up to the pc but it keeps shutting on & off so I believe its time to dig out and old HD and reformat.
I dont have wb exept on adf files, no hard copy. I may just get a newer copy of OS and go with that. I already have the toaster on cd. If I can get my adf files converted to some floppys then I will go with that but without the toaster actually running i think I might be better to just get a new fresh copy and go with that. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thx,
Rick

[Flashlab]

Just connect the new HD to the PC and use Winuae and the adfs to install WB on the HD. Then plug the HD in your Amiga again and you're done.

[jrkenn]

Thanks I'll try that. Got a find that old box of HD's now!!
I will let you know how it comes out

[huronking]

I have a Mac PCI Sledgehammer scsi card... I never
tried it, but I wonder if that would work with winuae
and an Amiga drive. I have a syquest that had some s/w
on it (if it  would even  read anymore...)

[jrkenn]

Will the onboard ide on a 4000 read a 4gig hd? I have a 1 gig I can use but would rather use the 4gig if possible.

[jj]

yes 4gb is fine, what os you using ?

[jrkenn]

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.

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?

[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?