I fired up my 1200 with a one partition 4gb CF drive to play a game of Rainbow Islands from floppy (I confess not the pucker article but a crack called Project Rainbow). The first time I jumped a platform with my joystick the screen went black and the CF was no longer visible on reboot. I thought something had fried. Much head scratching later (and searching of Amazon for smaller compatible CFs) I decided I had nothing to lose by rewriting the drive type to the old CF. Hey presto! Everything is there and the drive was never broken. But it made me think about how I'm going to rebuild my system in the event of a hard drive failure. I'm fed up of connecting and reconnecting CD and EIDE to fragile motherboard headers. In future I'm going to do it with a card reader and WinUAE if possible in VmWare on my laptop.
