Installing a new hard disk in my A4000

The second hard drive to die in my Amiga 4000. GRR. Here, I've got yet another drive and I'm copying all my system files & everything I could recover across to the new one.

With the funky 80s music blaring, as usual... :) Well, this computer definately is "weird science", so it suits it.

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• amiga
• 4000
• repair
• hard
• disk
• weird
• science

[phrozen3]

nice machine ! :) can you play old amiga games on it ? i always wanted a amiga but didnt have enough money at that time..

[d0pefish]

Thanks :) Yes at least to some extent. Some older games may struggle as this machine is insanely upgraded (060+PPC, G-Rex PCI) but booting with a couple things disabled like CPU caches and the usual tend to get things working. I use a great tool called WHDLoad (registered it as it's so good) which is a set of hard disk installers for all the old Amiga games. Not only does it let you do away with old, dying floppies, but it patches each game to run on upgraded Amigas and works around bugs. :)

[djoutlaws]

Always wanted an A4000, monsters of machines!

Love it, see HD Toolbox doing its thang.

[d0pefish]

A nice, intelligent comment for a change(!) A4000s are great fun to tinker with. They aren't cheap these days but if you can source one, you'll soon get addicted to upgrading and acquiring new hardware for it. :)

[a1864aa]

@Gaia1986

Grafik processor is dead - bay a kart insted ...

[Gaia1986]

I've got a A4000 but it doesn't give me anything on the display. I've tried connecting to a TV and a philips commodore monitor I used for my A500 but still no image. You think it could be a problem with the harddisk? or simply the graphic card?

[iljoongie]

What song is playing? :)

[huankv]

Fuck yeah !

[matsushito]

Very cool guy! I have 2 Amiga's 1200 and i wanto to use in lan with my 2 pc's. Good work boy! Amiga back for the future!

[JackiePaquito]

Amiga forever!

[d0pefish]

I don't need to Google anything. :) I've been following OS4's progress all this time, aswell as all this silly business with these companies changing hands, fighting for IPs and name usage and suing each other. I don't see OS4 or any of this as "Amiga" though. You can call anything you like "Amiga", but it's the original classic stuff that I will always know as Amiga. Hence, I tend to disregard all the new stuff.