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[Loftus]

I mean amiga floppies. I have been reading the other thread about formatting amiga disks in XP. So in theory, i can format the disks which arent working, put the adf file on there and then use them on the amiga?!

lol, i feel like a kid in school who is always asking stupid questions

[Harrison]

Yes, you can transfer ADF files back to the Amiga and then write them back onto real floppy disks. However you cannot read or write Amiga formatted floppy disks on a PC. You first need to transfer the ADFs over to the Amiga and then use a utility to write the ADF back onto a real floppy disk.

The tranfer the ADF from the PC to an Amiga using a floppy disk you will need to use double density floppy disks formatted at 720KB PC disks. You will then need to compress the 880KB ADF file to fit it onto the 720KB PC formatted floppy disk. This can sometimes be a problem. The Amiga compression file formats LHA or LHZ can be used quite easily, however you can also install utilities to handle ZIP on the Amiga if needed.

Have a look on aminet for some unzipping utilities here.

And once on the Amiga end you can then uncompress the file back into an ADF ready to write it back onto a floppy disk. I highly recommend the program ADFBlitzer to write the ADFs back onto floppy disks. You can download this program from aminet here.

Hope that makes sense.

Another alternative is to buy a copy of Amiga Explorer from Cloanto and connect your PC to your Amiga via a serial nul modem cable. You then install the Amiga Explorer software on both systems and can access the Amiga floppy drive directly from the PC. Put a floppy disk in the Amiga's drive, and drag and drop an ADF into the drive on the PC, and the software automatically copies the adf over to the Amiga and writes it to the disk. Nice software but it is commercial and so costs money. Amiga Explorer can be purchased alone or as part of the Amiga Forever package from Cloanto.

[Loftus]

right ok, think i can follow that! THANKS!

Just waiting on the mouse now!! (auction ends tomorrow)