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Since picking up the Amstrad 1640, I've wanted an easy way to transfer data to and from the machine. While I'm waiting for an XT-IDE to arrive, I only have a Gotek floppy emulator. However, because of the restrictions of the BIOS of the machine, only 720k images are supported on the Gotek - no large...

When I received the machine, the hard drive — a Tandon TM262 connected to a Western Digital WD1002S — was not working correctly. When the machine was powered on, the hard drive spun up, but the usual MS-DOS tools, like FDISK and FORMAT, were unable to operate on the drive.

Using the original Amstr...