So what I am rather generically calling "The Amiga Project" has begun here at Casa Wig.

Some goodies turned up today, a replacement CF Hard Drive which at 4gb might be small by PC standards but is 10x the size of my existing 400mb hard drive, it was also over £100 cheaper lol

The other thing is a PCMCIA CF card reader, PCMCIA I suppose you could describe as a precursor to USB although thats doing a disservice perhaps to the versatility of devices which used PCMCIA.

Anyway the basic plan is to use the card reader as a transfer device between the two hard drives, so copy everything from the old one, fit the new one, then copy it all back.

Perhaps at £30 its an expensive luxury but after some advice from http://eab.abime.net/index.php English Amiga Board its the best way.

So, a night of file management and data shifting awaits which (strangely) is something I'm rather looking forward to.

Long term I'm on the hunt for a basic desktop PC as my laptop lacks a PCMCIA slot to do file transfers between the two computers, then the fun will really start