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[irishmike]

Greetings:

I am not sure if this should be here or in the emulation forums or hardware, but here seemed to be the place to ask the question, so please forgive me if it is in the wrong forum :-)

I am relatively new at setting up an Amiga system from scratch and I need to figure out how a hard drive is setup both in a real machine and in my WinUAE emulator.

I understand the formatting the disk from the workbench screen and I have made a hardfile (which I am going to delete and remake) in the WinUAE emulator. What I want to acomplish is making the System and Work partitions -- The emulator is being setup with a 2 GB hardfile.

I have setup my system with just one partition because I did not know how to get the work and the system partitions :-)


Would someone please be so kind as to run step-by-step (as if I know nothing) through the process of setting up a new hard disk and what sizes the Work Partition and System partition, etc should be?

Appreciate the help on this one!

Thanks,

[motorollin]

If you're using WinUAE, can't you just add another hardfile as HD1: and call it Work? Then format it on Workbench? I haven't used WinUAE very much so I'm a little fuzzy on the finer details, but I think adding another hardfile might be where you need to start.

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moto

[irishmike]

Still would like to know how you do this on a real A1200 for instance as well. Figured out I can add another hardfile under WinUAE.

Thanks,

Mike

[Matt_H]

Most system configurations can be set up with HDToolbox. It's in the tools drawer of the SYS: partition or the HDTools directory of the Install disk.

Load it up, and it should detect your drive. If it's been previously used in an Amiga, you can go straight to partitioning it. If not, it needs to have an RDB installed first. Press Change Drive Type, make sure SCSI is selected, press New, and then read configuration from drive. Save those changes and your drive is prepared for partitioning.

Partition sizes can be whatever you want. Your system partition should be at least 8 megs, but you'll want more space as you install additional libs, devices, etc. I use 700MB out of my 18GB drive on my main system. Depending on your OS version, it should definitely be less than 4GB and maybe less than 2GB.

Configure the rest of the space on the drive however you want.

EDIT: Oh, and make sure Bootable is checked on your system partition.