can I ghost my amiga hd on a pc

[mauma]

I wanna know if it's possible to make an image of my amiga harddrive.
And if so, what options are there?

Thanks in advance,

Maurice

[StevenJGore]

Windows can't "see" Amiga-formatted hard disks, other than rcecognising that the hard disk is connected in the early BIOS screen, and in Device Manager. I'm 90% sure that since Windows can't assign a letter to any of the Amiga partitions, then drive imaging tools such as Norton Ghost and Powerquest Drive Image won't work.

Steve.

[GreggBz]

Linux can recognize read and write to AFFS partitions.
This works well and if you wanted to copy over an entire hardrive to say, a seperate dirrectory, you could easily do so.

This also provides an easy and quick way to trasfer files between platforms, if you happen to have a working distro of linux on your PC.

[Jope]

Linux with RDB support -> you can make images of partitions or an image of the entire disk.

Windows2k or XP with WinUAE -> you can boot from your HD in the emulation and then manually copy everything somewhere else - even if you're running PFS or SFS.

[mauma]

How difficalt is it to get linux to support RDB?

[Thomas]

In your original post you asked if you could create an image. You didn't mention that you want to access files. If you only want to make an image, you don't need RDB support.

Just enter

cp /dev/hdb /backup/amiga.hdf

in a shell window to create a full image of the entire hdd.

Bye,
Thomas

[mauma]

Ok, thanks a lot for your help.