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| Vigo:
Your HD is probably still fine at this point, but you have a corrupted system file. Plug your HD from your mame cab into your main computer, and see if it reads as a secondary hard drive. If it does, you are in luck. Drag your mame data and frontend data over to a folder on your C: drive. Format and put windows 98 on a new hard drive and drag back to the same location. Keep a spare of your data on your main computer. If it continues to fail, get a new HD. Although, as already pointed out, it might be time to UPGRAYEDD. |
| lilshawn:
--- Quote from: mpm32 on October 28, 2014, 11:03:41 am --- What about the freezer trick? Freeze the HD and try to clone it? --- End quote --- uhm, no. don't. yeah. i don't care what people have said, saying they've done it 100 times and it works all the time. Don't freeze your hard drive. You will lose more than you'd ever gain. unless you have a very specific failure caused by heat causing a drive failure...don't. Even had a guy tell me he froze his drive and it magically worked and has been reliable for 7 years, or some BS. Rolling my eyes so hard my retinas detached. ANYWAYS... downloading 10,000 mame games really doesn't take very long, especially with the speed things run these days. You can find... out there... complete sets all ready to go, just dump and run. all your hardware will work with new versions of mame, in fact it will probably work more reliably with updated software and drivers. the front end you use is your choice. you can stick with what you had, or go with something else. not a big deal. you are acting like it's a great crisis and something that is impossible to fix. Toss the old drive, (heck even the whole computer) get a new one (off craigslist for >30 bucks if you have to) and download what you need onto it. It's easier to do things like this than they were 15 years ago. |
| Wired203:
Freezing does work but it's for certain circumstances only which is a failing main bearing which causes the spindle speed to slow down as it heats up which this isn't the case, your drive is corrupt. Hooking it up to your main PC and running a chkdsk and then copying everything over as suggested earlier would be the easiest option for someone that doesn't have in depth pc skills. If your main PC doesn't have IDE which newer ones don't you can get a ide to usb adapter to connect it. |
| mpm32:
So, I got a working PC to use in my Mame machine. And I am going to use Hyperspin. I want to set everything up on one PC, on an external drive and then move it to the Mame PC. I found this guide (is there a better one?); https://gameroomsolutions.com/setup-hyperspin-mame-hyperlaunch-full-guide/ I am concerned things won't work with the drive names being different. What would be the best way to do this? |
| mpm32:
Oh and do I need Rocketlauncher? I'm only going to be using Mame. Thanks! |
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