Hi there everyone,

I was a hard core Amiga user from 1990-1998.. I have a working basic amiga 1200 with a working 2.5" 350mb IDE HD. I sunk countless hours into this fella. I created tons of music and other content. I recently got my music studio back up and running and this included getting my Amiga running Tiger Cub and other stuff.

Once upon a time I had an awesome program that let me read/write 3.5" floppy disks on the amiga which was a great way to move files back and forth, however many moons ago this stopped working.. i'm so rusty on my WB / CLI stuff (can't even remember how to get the CLI window open.. yea.. sad) that I have no idea what anything does anymore..

I'm also suspecting that either all of my floppies got nuked by something making them unreadable or (more likely) my floppy disk drive is on its last legs. I'm likely to eventually buy a new A1200 to put this hard drive in, but ultimately the biggest fear is losing the 2.5" hard drive due to age.

At one point a couple years ago, I bought one of those CF PCMCIA adapters thinking that might do the trick, but it seems that i couldn't get the device to be recognized and again.. being sooo rusty, i was likely to make things worse before they got better.

I have pulled out the 2.5" HD and connected it to my two laptops (macbook pro running windows 8 and macbook running windows xp, both via bootcamp). it seems like maybe there would be a way for WinUAE or some other emulator to see the physical hard drive over USB and boot from that somehow.. but the device doesn't show up since the window since i imagine the hosting OS would need to first know what the disk format is and understand it..

This would mean the world to me to figure out how i could migrate the files over in some effective way. I'm not very Amiga savvy so i'm really looking for the easiest way to get this done.

I would like to really just start over with the hard drive and reinstall WB and all that, but before i do anything that crazy and undo some of the hot-rodding i did back in the day which i'm pretty sure broke some stuff.. i would feel soooo much better if i knew the files themselves were backed up and safe.. not to mention if this 15+ year old hard drive decided to die.. it would be heartbreaking.

Sincerely,
Caleb
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