How should i clone my hardrive?

[fitzsteve]

Why not connect your HDD to your PC and do all your work in WinUAE?

[Xanxi]

Why not connect your HDD to your PC and do all your work in WinUAE?

Because i only have PC laptops, so no IDE messing, and it doesn't not seem to work with Amikit over USB.

On the 1200, it seems i can't partition and format my 8GB CF, it always fall back on FAT.
I would like to create 3 partitions in SFS. I have of course installed the SFS filesystem with HDInstools and compact-flash.Device.


EDIT: i have partitionned the CF on the PCMCIA using pccard.device instead of compactflash.device, then copied files to the new partitions, but all the datas disappeared on the next reset.

[Xanxi]

If anyone got an idea, i am still stuck.

Summary of what i have:
-10 GB internal IDE hardrive with 3 partitions
-IDE female CF adapter with 8 GB CF
- PCMCIA CF adapter

I can' t connect the hardrive and the CF adapter on the same IDE cable but i need to move evrything from the HD to the CF. Partionning the CF with the PCMCIA adapter does not give reliable results, as everything disappear on the next boot.

And i can't use WinUAE as i only have PC laptops.

What sould i do??

[kolla]

get a longer cable with three plugs on it so you can plug in both disk and CF at once

[Xanxi]

get a longer cable with three plugs on it so you can plug in both disk and CF at once

I can't. The CF adapter is a female plug and do not have any jumper to set it as slave. It is the special triangular shaped adapter made by a finnish guy from EAB.

[Cammy]

To solve this riddle you need a second Compact Flash card!

[mousehouse]

Because i only have PC laptops, so no IDE messing, and it doesn't not seem to work with Amikit over USB.

I also only have a laptop and it worked perfectly... It's even a weirder setup because I run OSX with VMware on it with Windows7. In Windows7 I connect my SanDisk CF reader with CF disk in it. Start WinUAE as "Administrator", add the disk as a physical disk.

Voila ;-)

[Xanxi]

I also only have a laptop and it worked perfectly... It's even a weirder setup because I run OSX with VMware on it with Windows7. In Windows7 I connect my SanDisk CF reader with CF disk in it. Start WinUAE as "Administrator", add the disk as a physical disk.

Voila ;-)

You mean you connect your CF with USB? Could you be more specific in how to add the disk? I'm not really familiar with winuae and only use amikit.

[Xanxi]

To solve this riddle you need a second Compact Flash card!

Yes, if i can't succeed otherwise i will have to buy another IDE-CF adapter that can be connected together with the HD.

[Xanxi]

People, you were all right about WinUAE, it is very easy to add hard-drives, even on USB. I have messed a bit with the settings and succeedded in cloning my HD with Amikit.

Bad luck, all that was only to found the Mika's CFangled adapter is faulty.
I'm going to redo all the process for my SDHC and IDE-SDHC adapter.

[mousehouse]

Good to hear you solved the puzzle ;-)

If I'm not mistaken you have the option in WinUAE to convert an attached Amiga disk to a diskfile or hardfile. Nice option IMHO to clone your disk (as per your original question!).