The V4's AROS image is about 16Gb, but may not fit on some 16Gb cards. I don't know if the one for the V1200 is the same size. I wanted to keep a copy of the AROS image on my V4. I tried doing this with the shipped AROS image to a 16Gb microSD. It's just about 16Gb, but wouldn't fit on my microSD. Note that the actual files don't take up 16Gb, but as the distributed image is from a 16Gb partition, it requires 16Gb to restore it in that format. You could try using an Emulation environment on PC such as WinUAE or AmigaKit as a go-between. Rather than writing the entire HDF in one shot, you could mount the HDF as another hard drive, and copy the files from the HDF you have, to new volumes on the CF. I took this approach through this past weekend. I wanted to try ApolloOS on my V4 (Ships with AROS). I wanted to keep a copy of my existing AROS image, so I could go back to it more easily if I desired. I used AmigaKit XE, but you could also use WinUAE if you're more comfortable with that. You will need a configuration that boots from a different HDF or folder, as you don't want to boot from the AROS or ApolloOs HDF image. You would then need to add the HDF you aren't able to image to CF, as well as the CF itself as additional hard disks to the emulator configuration. That requires a USB Card reader for the CF. Windows may want to format the CF when you insert it -- do NOT let it do so. Otherwise, you'll have re-create the partition setup prior to copying the files over. Startup the emulator. You may wish to create a backup of the CF prior to replacing data on the CF, then potentially reformat the volumes on the CF. Paramount here to be certain you're copying & formatting the correct volumes, as the names may be similar, it is easy to get confused. I used the command line to copy over the files. With Workbench/DOpus: Select Execute Command, type in "Cli" or click the "CLI" button if there is one. This will open a command window. The command syntax is: Copy FromVolume: ToVolume: clone all The volume names must end with a colon (:). "FromVolume" is the source volume (copy from) "ToVolume" is the destination volume (copy to) This is similar to the Xcopy command in MS-DOS. It copies all files and folders from one volume to another. As long as the volumes are physically large enough to hold the files, they can be smaller than the ones in the HDF you are copying from. You may end up with less free space though. Otherwise, I see no reason you couldn't use a larger CF and write the HDF to that. Only downside, is that you won't have access to the extra space on the larger CF, so there will be some wasted space with this approach. Hope this helps.
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