Imaging my blitz 2000!

[Need help!]

I recently bought a Blitz 2000 arcade for home, and upon opening it up, I noticed there's a PC hard drive in it!  

Just to be on the safe side, I'd like to take an image of the hard drive, so I can have the possibility of restoring on a new drive should the current one fail.

Can anyone help?

[planetjay]

I've heard from a local operator that you can't. I think I'd try Norton Ghost myself.  

[Lilwolf]

I have no clue if it's doable..
but if I was going to try it, I would add the drive as a secondary to a linux partition.  Then copy it that way.  Linux can copy other drives better then most operation systems.

(assuming of course that you don't have a professional drive cloning device..)

[Need help!]

Thanks - I tried Drive Image, and the drive comes up as 0MB and I can't seem to get it going.

Are there imaging tools I can try in Linux?

[Lilwolf]

I will try to find out the name of the tools from my boss.

but he is able to copy/clone a ton of drives for work related stuff (that can't be done in the native OS).  I think it reads the drive bit by bit and copies it that way.

Might only work with drives of the same size / type (all I'm sure hes done)

[SirPoonga]

I recently bought a Blitz 2000 arcade for home, and upon opening it up, I noticed there's a PC hard drive in it!

[Need help!]

It definitely is a standard computer hard drive.  It's a Quantum 8.4GB drive I believe and its got master/slave jumpers like a standard drive.  

On my PC, I've got WinXP running Drive Image Pro 4.0, it sees the size of the drive, but I cannot image it as it says the partition is 'unallocated space'.

I am really worried that with the game on always on and over time I might have a physical problem with the drive and have to spend tons of money to get a replacement drive with the game installed on the drive.

[SirPoonga]

Hmm, probably not fat32 or ntfs then.  I'd see if you can get ahold of a linux install disk.  Just get to the portion of the install that uses disk druid or fdisk, DON'T ACTUALLY INSTALL.  When you get to that part you see everything.   Though I be someone else will have a better idea that just invalves a boot disk of some sort.

[Need help!]

Thanks, I can try that, but are there any imaging tools for Linux?

[Lilwolf]

diskman rawread and rawwrite should do it in windows
I think there was a microsoft version of the same thing in 98/95/me but I'm at a 2000 box right now

dd is the linux program that will perfectly copy any drive (as long as the output drive is the same)

[Need help!]

Wow, thanks!

One problem, not a big Linux guy myself, so I apologize in advance for the stupid question.  

Basically I would have to set up a Linux machine (any distribution, version?), mount this slave drive that happens to be the original Blitz hard drive and run DD to image the hard drive?

[SirPoonga]

basically, you know you will have to probably mount the drive.  Make sure to read the dd man pages and howtos.