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Stop me if this has been asked before.
I'm wanting to make my stock Falcon Solid-state with a CF- or SD-IDE adaptor, as the 500MB HD I put in it twelve years ago is, well, twenty years old. I haven't been able to source a 44-pin IDE cable with two headers for discs, and I don't want to start using 44-40 pin converters because of the mess and limited space inside the case, and I want to keep my Falcon as close to stock as possible, without performing any case mods (since I'm saving it for my retirement).
I was wondering if it would be possible to use something like Ghost on a PC to transfer the contents of the Falcon HD to the flash card. I know Ghost can work in a pure binary mode while preserving partitions it doesn't understand. Does this seem feasible, and does the community have any experience?
Before I perform surgery I'd like to know. At the very least I'd like to be able to make an image of the HD, but would I be able to restore it back to a similar sized HD if the flash path isn't successful?
No major biggie if not, I'll buy a big SCSI disc for an enclosure I've got and a SCSI - SCSI II cable, I just thought plan A would be cheaper!
All the best and Merry Xmas fellow Atarians!
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