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thomas · 26 September 2011, 07:54

Some hints:

- the better way to use virtual harddrives is to enable RDB mode and use HDToolbox to partition them.
- you should use VHD (tick "dynamic HDF") instead of HDF. With this you can make much bigger harddrives and still save a lot of space on your Windows harddrive.
- as OS3.9 is your goal you don't need to make the detour through OS 3.1. You can boot WinUAE from the Emergency-Boot directory on the OS 3.9 CD. Then create an emergency disk and continue as usual. Some manual changes need to be made to the emergency disk, though: kill the write protection bits and correct the emergency_cd driver.

http://translate.google.de/translate...2Fos39uae.html

Edit: forgot one important point:
- when formatting a harddrive, no matter if real or virtual, always use quick format. Standard format only produces hot air and wastes a lot of time.

26 September 2011, 07:54	#6
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,985	Some hints: - the better way to use virtual harddrives is to enable RDB mode and use HDToolbox to partition them. - you should use VHD (tick "dynamic HDF") instead of HDF. With this you can make much bigger harddrives and still save a lot of space on your Windows harddrive. - as OS3.9 is your goal you don't need to make the detour through OS 3.1. You can boot WinUAE from the Emergency-Boot directory on the OS 3.9 CD. Then create an emergency disk and continue as usual. Some manual changes need to be made to the emergency disk, though: kill the write protection bits and correct the emergency_cd driver. http://translate.google.de/translate...2Fos39uae.html Edit: forgot one important point: - when formatting a harddrive, no matter if real or virtual, always use quick format. Standard format only produces hot air and wastes a lot of time. Last edited by thomas; 26 September 2011 at 10:05.