English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Need advice before I screw up my Amiga 1200

12 February 2012, 19:08

I recently decided to resurrect my Amiga 1200 (w/ 2GB HDD, 8MB RAM and KS3.1) after discovering classicwb, but I discovered that the internal floppy drive is not working.

What happens is that when I insert a disk it spins but the head doesn't seem to move (single click at the most) and disks appear as df0???

My current plan is to open up the drive and clean the drive with white spirit on an earbud.

Is this ok or is there something else I should do?

Also, I know this is a hardware board but I don't want to spam the site, I also plan to insert a larger 50GB drive I've been recently given with no other use for.

The partition layout I may use is:
classicWB-500MB
WB3.1- 50mb
WB3.5- 100mb
WB1.3- 10MB
work- 3GB
Games- whatever's left

I have looked up what to do through the classicwb site but my concerns are:
1. Will WHDload be affected by the large partition due to kickstart emulation
2. Will any boot disks not cause corruption as long as I don't touch the Games partition?

BTW, I know that having the other WB versions is a bit redundant but them so I might as well use them.

Thank You.

12 February 2012, 19:08	#1
tech3475 Posts: n/a	Need advice before I screw up my Amiga 1200 I recently decided to resurrect my Amiga 1200 (w/ 2GB HDD, 8MB RAM and KS3.1) after discovering classicwb, but I discovered that the internal floppy drive is not working. What happens is that when I insert a disk it spins but the head doesn't seem to move (single click at the most) and disks appear as df0??? My current plan is to open up the drive and clean the drive with white spirit on an earbud. Is this ok or is there something else I should do? Also, I know this is a hardware board but I don't want to spam the site, I also plan to insert a larger 50GB drive I've been recently given with no other use for. The partition layout I may use is: classicWB-500MB WB3.1- 50mb WB3.5- 100mb WB1.3- 10MB work- 3GB Games- whatever's left I have looked up what to do through the classicwb site but my concerns are: 1. Will WHDload be affected by the large partition due to kickstart emulation 2. Will any boot disks not cause corruption as long as I don't touch the Games partition? BTW, I know that having the other WB versions is a bit redundant but them so I might as well use them. Thank You.