Copying OS3.9

[scuzzb494]

I have had OS3.9 running on an Amiga 1200 since 2004. The Amiga has Squirrel, 2 x SCSI drives, CD-ROM and ZIP. Back in the early days I made a backup of the Workbench and Work partitions onto ZIP disks. I checked them tonight and they work. Thing is this afternoon the 450MB 2.5" hard drive finally died. It just keeps giving out three high pitched squeals then stops. So here is the question.. Can I simply copy over my Workbench partition from the ZIP drive and reboot and the system works and picks up all my SCSI stuff?

[F0LLETT]

I have had OS3.9 running on an Amiga 1200 since 2004. The Amiga has Squirrel, 2 x SCSI drives, CD-ROM and ZIP. Back in the early days I made a backup of the Workbench and Work partitions onto ZIP disks. I checked them tonight and they work. Thing is this afternoon the 450MB 2.5" hard drive finally died. It just keeps giving out three high pitched squeals then stops. So here is the question.. Can I simply copy over my Workbench partition from the ZIP drive and reboot and the system works and picks up all my SCSI stuff?

Should do as long as all the drivers and stuff are on the workbench partition.

[Boing-ball]

I have had OS3.9 running on an Amiga 1200 since 2004. The Amiga has Squirrel, 2 x SCSI drives, CD-ROM and ZIP. Back in the early days I made a backup of the Workbench and Work partitions onto ZIP disks. I checked them tonight and they work. Thing is this afternoon the 450MB 2.5" hard drive finally died. It just keeps giving out three high pitched squeals then stops. So here is the question.. Can I simply copy over my Workbench partition from the ZIP drive and reboot and the system works and picks up all my SCSI stuff?

Simply put. “yes”. Make sure you keep the name of partitions the same. Nothing stopping you using a different filesystem before copying.