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Running arcade off memory stick
Ophelius:
--- Quote from: Thenasty on April 07, 2010, 06:15:46 pm ---you could probaly get a 40GB HD for $20.00. I think thats cheaper than you Falsh Drive IDEA.
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"I can easily setup multiple sticks each with different configurations if I want, or easily keep a backup of the system this way, etc." Much easier to switch than a bulky hard drive.
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on April 07, 2010, 06:06:56 pm ---yes its called Bart PE, its is not easy to do, you will need a larger thumbdrive and PARTITION it to smaller drives, there are several tutorials on how to do it. It took me around 8-10 hours to get working.
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I'm giving Bart PE a try, but when you say I have to partition it to smaller drives, what smaller drives are you talking about?
Also, I found some pre-built versions of Windows PE, so that should save me some time at least.
Thenasty:
you can easily swap HD
http://www.numark.com/hdcaddy
Just TURN machine off, pull out, push the other one in, turn machine on.
The above is is jsut a pic of what it looks like. The price on that thing is obsurd. It goes around $10-15. If you need some, I got some.
Ophelius:
Hey, that's even better! Didn't know those things existed. :cheers:
WhereEaglesDare:
PLUS I forgot to mention, deflated XP or a PE version of XP means NO DIRECT X which mean most games wont play... Why not just do what they said, get some small HDDs, hell I got a handful I'll sell you cheap, and install a real full copy of XP on each one... For what you want to do, this is perfect, you can hide the caddy under the CP so when you pull it off to change the CP out you can do the HDD at the same time.
Ophelius:
They won't run directX? Well, that won't do. Ok, thanks everyone.