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hard drive setup for amiga 4000
« on: September 26, 2011, 09:57:55 AM »
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Does anyone know what the best way of preping a hard drive so my amiga can detect a bigger partition than 4gig using winuae then setting it back so i can use in a real amiga 4000 and installing classic workbench:laughing:
 

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Re: hard drive setup for amiga 4000
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2011, 06:03:01 PM »
To what extent do you mean "Setup"?  Are you installing just the OS?  What version?

This will help us get a better feel as to what your options are. ;)
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Re: hard drive setup for amiga 4000
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2011, 08:49:13 PM »
If i partition first one say 2gig workbench sometimes freezers is it because its too large to be formated
 

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Re: hard drive setup for amiga 4000
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2011, 11:36:26 PM »
It's a good idea to keep boot partitions less than 500mb or so and keep them at the very beginning of the disk.  Other than that, follow the cwb/os3.9 guide that has been linked and you will be good to go :)