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Megatouch XL CD-ROM to Hard Drive
orizzle:
Do you have a USB IDE external hard drive enclosure? I could probably send you my XL 5000 image, and you would just need to copy your CD over to replace my files.
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: orizzle on July 29, 2016, 09:12:06 am ---Do you have a USB IDE external hard drive enclosure? I could probably send you my XL 5000 image, and you would just need to copy your CD over to replace my files.
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I actually do have one of those. That is awfully generous of you. So all I would need to do is download your image, dump it to an IDE hard drive, and paste my CD into the hard drive somewhere?
orizzle:
Yeah, I'll PM you a link to my hard drive image. Download and extract it (important - do not leave it as a zip file).
You'll need to get a program called USB Image Tool: http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/download
When you run it, go into the Options tab and tick "Show non-removable devices (USB hard disk drives)" and then you should see your external drive. Click it in the left pane. Click "Restore" and open the image file (should be a .img file since you extracted the .zip) and let it write to the drive.
When it's done writing, you should see 4 more drive letters appear in "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. Find the drive with all my XL 5000 files on it and delete them all. Then copy the contents of your CD to the root of this drive. If all goes well, you should be able to boot from the drive.
There are some jumpers on the ioboard that you might have to play with. There are 2 jumpers on mine side-by-side. One is labeled NVRAM and I can't honestly recall what the other one is. But I believe my jumper on the NVRAM part is on, and the one beside it is off. Pulling the jumper off the other one will prevent the machine from trying to boot to the ROM-DOS image that's on the flash memory.
Good luck
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: orizzle on July 30, 2016, 08:49:46 am ---Yeah, I'll PM you a link to my hard drive image. Download and extract it (important - do not leave it as a zip file).
You'll need to get a program called USB Image Tool: http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/download
When you run it, go into the Options tab and tick "Show non-removable devices (USB hard disk drives)" and then you should see your external drive. Click it in the left pane. Click "Restore" and open the image file (should be a .img file since you extracted the .zip) and let it write to the drive.
When it's done writing, you should see 4 more drive letters appear in "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. Find the drive with all my XL 5000 files on it and delete them all. Then copy the contents of your CD to the root of this drive. If all goes well, you should be able to boot from the drive.
There are some jumpers on the ioboard that you might have to play with. There are 2 jumpers on mine side-by-side. One is labeled NVRAM and I can't honestly recall what the other one is. But I believe my jumper on the NVRAM part is on, and the one beside it is off. Pulling the jumper off the other one will prevent the machine from trying to boot to the ROM-DOS image that's on the flash memory.
Good luck
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Thanks so much! I got your PM. I also PMed you the ISO you requested.
Unfortunately my machine won't boot with the IDE hard drive installed. Firstly, it makes the speakers have some really terrible crackling. I am not sure why. Possibly the additional power load? And it won't boot, it keeps rebooting right after it starts up. My guess is that since this is such an old PC, it doesn't know how to handle a 250GB hard drive (it was the only IDE hard drive I had available).
orizzle:
Do you see messages like starting MS-DOS? The image I sent you was only 1gb...I think even with the old ass bios on those motherboards, it should boot because it doesn't need the rest of the space. I looked at the ISO you sent me. There is no megacdll.exe in the root like on my CD. I'm guessing the startup sequence is different.
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