New big fat Hard-drive in skinny old amiga 600....

[adz]

@RedWarrior

WinUAE will detect drives that have Amiga partitions on them and you can mount them accordingly, what you could do is create a virtual partition and install WB on that, this way you have something to work with, then you take the drive from your A600 and connect it to your PC's IDE controller using the "IDE to mini-IDE" converter, now fire up WinUAE and you should be able to select the entire A600 drive and mount it. Now you can copy the contents of the A600 drive to another virtual drive. Once done, format your new drive, install it in your PC and copy the contents of the virtual drive to the new drive...does that at all make sense?? Sorry its 12AM and I'm dog tired.

[RedWarrior]

OMG- you're in Meblourne too!!!

Im at work in St Kilda, and yes it is 12:19am...

I think it made sense yes... though I'm a little anxious about connecting the drive to my PC without having any backup first...

I bought an 850 meg hdd from the swap meet today- can I get WinUAE to format it for me and then do a bunch of adf conversions first to make sure it worked?

Thanks for your help mate

[RedWarrior]

Attempting to use CrossDos- I do have the PC0: device on my 600.... but do you think I can get WinXp to format this disk at 720kb?

Have taped over the hold and everything... all I get are I/O errors and messages saying it can't format.  I think I need an old version of MS-Dos?

[adz]

Windows XP has abandoned DD disks, you will need Win 2K or below. You need not worry about your Amiga data, nothing will happen to it, i've done far crazier things than that and never lost data. If I had the time, I'd probably offer to do it for you seeing as your in Melb, but it really isn't that hard.