Read warning at the end before attempting attempting this.
Congrats on your purchase, with a little patience and some research I am sure you can get that little girl up and running for some retro-gaming-goodness!
WinUAE works great for getting your hard drive or CF card ready for use in your Amiga.
If you are using Windows Vista, you will need to run WinUAE as an administrator. You can do this a couple of ways. Right click and select run as administrator, or if you are going to be doing it regularly you can right click and select properties, then click on the compatibility tab and check the box to run as administrator.
This next step will enable the ability to add hard drives to WinUAE that do not already have RDB partitions on them.
Edit the the Target box with this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloanto\Amiga Forever\WinUAE\winuae.exe" -disableharddrivesafetycheck
Of course, this is the target for my install of WinUAE on 64 bit Vista. If you send a short cut to your desktop you will already have the target path there. Then you will need to add the -disableharddrivesafetycheck part to the end, outside of the quotes.
I have not used CF cards with UAE, do I am not sure how they are listed.
[color=ff0000]WARNING:[/color] Be careful which drive you select as you could destroy a partition, along with the data, of one of your windows drives.
Good Luck and Enjoy! :-)
EDIT - to add the following:
I think you just need to add the -disableharddrivesafetycheck part to the end of short cut for WindowsXP.
