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Blitter · 19 December 2019, 00:06

I boxed my A1200 up 5 or 6 years ago, but have just got it out of storage and to my delight it still boots, everything's as it was.

I want to back up the Hard Drive, which is in 2 partitions, DH0 (Workbench) and DH1 (storage volume). I can't remember how to see how big in filesize each volume is, and full each is - any pointers?

I have an AmigaTrax PCMCIA CF reader from when I backed up some floppies years back, although I've now lost the floppy that came with it with the software on. :-/ The Amiga seems to auto-mount the CF card anyway.

Can I literally just copy the contents of DF0 and DF1 to the CF card (in DOpus or something) or are there hidden files/boot files that won't get copied?

If I copied DF0 like this, could I make it bootable from the CF card, or even have an emulator boot it?

19 December 2019, 00:06	#1
Blitter Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: UK Posts: 41	Backing up my original A1200 Hard Drive I boxed my A1200 up 5 or 6 years ago, but have just got it out of storage and to my delight it still boots, everything's as it was. I want to back up the Hard Drive, which is in 2 partitions, DH0 (Workbench) and DH1 (storage volume). I can't remember how to see how big in filesize each volume is, and full each is - any pointers? I have an AmigaTrax PCMCIA CF reader from when I backed up some floppies years back, although I've now lost the floppy that came with it with the software on. :-/ The Amiga seems to auto-mount the CF card anyway. Can I literally just copy the contents of DF0 and DF1 to the CF card (in DOpus or something) or are there hidden files/boot files that won't get copied? If I copied DF0 like this, could I make it bootable from the CF card, or even have an emulator boot it?