Big walk around, for Workbench install? Could it work

[Mr_B]

Then that probobly means i would be much intressted, unless i get this WinUAE to install properly and then run the disk in the amiga.. i'll have a go at that first..

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[Nitro]

I did it with WinUAE and it worked out great.  Like you
said when you have 10 year old disk, I don`t see anything wrong with a backup of something you already own.  The way I did it was I formated my drive on the Amiga, (a 520 meg) then put in the PC.  WinUAE took it alright.  It was perfect to restore my system and install some good stuff from Aminet.

[Mr_B]

I cant seam to get it to find / format the drive on the amiga, i was guessing it had to do with it not being correcly partitiond, i might be wrong thoo, any ideas?

Also cant seam to get WinUAE to use the darn drive, probobly for the same reason..

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[Nitro]

Try to add it to  WinUAE, in the add harddrive settings and use a workbench.adf to boot up, also go to Aminet, and get IDEfix97. Have it unzipped and set up on some place on your Windows drive.  Make shure you add that to you winUAE harddrive settings.
After WinUAE loads up Workbench, use the find device in IDEfix97.  It should find it and let you partition, and format the drive.

[Mr_B]

Hhum, cant seam to get it to work anyway, guess im getting tired, it is getting late here. That, or im just plain not thinking in the right way... I think they call that being stoopid... How do i add the idefix97 to the harddrive settings? itseams to have no place to go?

Oh well, just like me, needing pictures drawn up, so i can find my way fron the bedroom, to the bathroom (just next door)

Thanks for all the effort you guys are sending my way.
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[Nitro]

Oh just unzip it into a folder then, make shure you add that folder to the drive setup of Winuae. It will
look like it is a drive.  Open it and just run Find Device.  It should find it, and let you set up your Amiga harddrive

[Mr_B]

Well, so far its simple enough.. problem is i get this funny little thing, where it wants me to select something, and there is simply nothing there?

"Exec device" only option is "uaehf.device" and in the large box to the right, there is clearly stated "nothing to select"

Um, try this, walk me, like a baby, step by step, should the drive be partitiond at all? should it be formated? what way if at all? should it be master / slave, does it mater? should it ... any ideas?

Its a 1Gb IBM 2.5" it works perfecly well, in the old laptop i butcherd it out off atleast... Same in my P4C2.4Ghz.... might it be the Gigabyte "raid" chip that stands for the ide interface thats messin? it IS set to run as standard ATA aso it should be ok, but?

I dont know, you guys are probobly better at this then i am..
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