A1200 + 3.5in HDD

[Kin Hell]

Not the tidest of solutions to look at, but I admire your tenacity all the same.

If you still have the original Hard Drive bracket for your A1200, I can send you a small 2.5" hard drive for the cost of postage if you'd like a large internal solution. Maybe not 80Gb but at least 20GB. I can check later for you if you're interested?

Also, getting SFS set up correctly can be a bit of a sod. I always found the best way was to have a couple of Bootable partitions. Set one of them up with the normal FastFile System & SFS installed & simply use SFS to format all partitions on your hard drive. (not the one you are booting from, obviously)
Copy the OS to your SFS Formatted partition, set boot priority higher than the first install & cold boot the Amiga. Once at the desktop, re-format the old boot partition with the SFS command & copy the OS back over. You can delete these files now, or drop them all into a folder called OS Backup. Reset the Boot prioritys on the partitions and enjoy. Another good idea is to copy all the SFS commands to your C: directory & then they will just run from CLI or Shell without the need for typing paths.