How to Backup your AMIGA CF Card

If you own an AMIGA and there is a working CF-Card with a good installation in it, maybe you want to backup the whole thing just in case. Here is how you do it.

• Download and install WinImage
• Remove your CF card from your Amiga (carefully!)
• Plug the CF into your PC's USB Card reader
• DO NOT let Windoze format the CF
Open WinImage - run as administrator otherwise there is no CF-Card-Reader to choose from.
• In the menu bar at the top choose 'Disk/Create Virtual hard Disk Image from Physical Drive'
• Select the Disk you wish to backup from the list
• Choose a place and name for your CF HDD Image File
• Make a Coffee and wait whilst the progress bar makes it's way from left to right...

Here are the steps to restore your backup file:

• Insert your blank CF card into your PC's USB Card Reader
• Open WinImage
• In the menu bar at the top choose 'Disk/Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image on Physical Drive'
• Choose the Disk you want to restore to *Be very careful not to choose the wrong Disk as you could erase another drive by mistake!* You have been warned
• Browse to your backup folder and choose the image to be restored
• Now it's just a case of waiting for the image to be written to the CF Card.

This only works with identical or bigger CF-Cards, you cant restore an image from a bigger card to a smaller one.

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