06 November 2002, 08:07 | #1 |
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Upgrading A1200 Hard drive
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I have a bog standard A1200 with a 80 meg hard drive in it. I am receiving in the next day or two a 2.1 gig drive to replace it with. My question is this: What is the easiest way to back everything up and place it on the new drive without having to reinstall fresh again? The 80 meg drive has a 20 meg partition with around 15 used and and 60 meg parition with around maybe 20 megs used (at most). Is there any kind of utility that will aid in this that you can suggest? I have the machine all setup with Miami and Mui and software and I would hate to have to reinstall it all again. Thanks! |
06 November 2002, 09:20 | #2 |
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The easiest way would be, to hook up both IDE drives to the internal port, partition your new drive and copy the files over to the new one Then remove the old drive, make the new one bootable with HDToolBox and away you go with your old WB
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06 November 2002, 12:49 | #3 |
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I presume to do this I would need to have a 44pin ide cable with 2 drive connectors on it?
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07 November 2002, 00:12 | #5 |
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Woo I registered!
Anyways...I have another question. Anyone have a suggestion for partition sizes? I am using OS 3.0. I was thinking of maybe 2 or 3 partitions. 1 large partition for music and downloads and then either 1 partition for all my applications and system files, or 2 other partitions. 1 for system files and 1 for my apps/games. Any thoughts on this? I have never had this much space on the hard drive of any of my Amiga's and i am wondering what folks would suggest. Thanks! |
07 November 2002, 00:18 | #6 |
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I would partition a 2 gig drive in the following way (roughly):
Workbench: 200Mb Utils: 400Mb Music: 400Mb Graphics: 400Mb Temp: 50mb Games: 600Mb Of course, alter it for what you want to do more of. Remember though, that each partition eats up a small bit of Chip RAM, so the more partitions, the less available memory. |
07 November 2002, 00:44 | #7 |
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Thanks for the suggestion Cody!
You listed a 50 meg temp partition. What would that be used for? Downloads or unarchiving or? Thanks! Last edited by broken; 07 November 2002 at 01:16. |
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Yeah, just anything really. Sometimes it's useful to have a place to keep the junk.
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