Don't forget to format it with the AmigaOS! If using HDToolbox to manage Hard files, you must create hardfile normally or use hard disk image from your real Amiga but clear all hardfile parameters except block size.(sectors, surfaces and reserved). Then, type 'mount UAE0:' (or put that command in your startup-sequence), and you should be able to access it. To do this, add the following to 'DEVS:mountlist': UAE0: Device = vice Unit = 0 Flags = 0 Surfaces = 1 BlocksPerTrack = 32 Reserved = 1 Interleave = 0 LowCyl = 0 HighCyl = 511 Buffers = 5 DosType = 0x444F5300 BufMemType = 1 You may need to adjust the values if you specified a different geometry, and/or your hardfile has a different size than 8MB, and/or the hardfile is not mounted as UAE0: because you mounted other hard disks before it. You will have to boot either from a Floppy Disk Image or from a file system, and mount the vice later. If you are using WinUAE 0.8.22r1 or earlier and Kickstart 1.3 or earlier, hardfiles can't currently be mounted at boot time, and therefore you can't boot from it either. If you are want to boot a hardfile under Kickstart 1.3, you need the FastFileSystem file from the L: directory to be placed in the Kickstart ROMs-directory where WinUAE is installed.

You can simply create a large empty file and tell UAE to use it as a hardfile, but you will need to format it from the emulation before you can actually use it. They work much the same way as a disk file. Hard disk files are large files that contain the image of an Amiga file system. However, the Amiga file systems used different and/or additional meta information, so by default, UAEFSDB files will be created which store this extra information, such as additional protection flags for files when using the Directory type of file systems.

When mounting a directory as hard disk in WinUAE, files will be placed into the host directory.

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