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| daywane:
I just bought a 500 gig maxtor 1 touch. $89.00 at Wal Mart LOVE IT. It will not back up windows but I have baced up all my PCs on it and have mega room left. If A PC crashes no big deal. install windows. Plug in Maxtor one touch . drag all my files back into place. I bet I could be back to running order in just over 1 hr |
| HaRuMaN:
X2 for clonezilla, that's what I use, and its free (really free, not I wear an eyepatch and have a pegleg free). |
| ghettodish:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on December 28, 2008, 02:45:25 am --- --- Quote from: ghettodish on December 28, 2008, 02:25:07 am ---...or you can make an nlite version of xp with mame added to it. --- End quote --- how does that get me around not having to make macros etc for shutting the cab down? if i have to start from scratch again, theres no reason for me to use anything other than what i was already using, which is win98. its a cocktail cab with games up to about 1991 vintage. it doesnt need drivers for bluetooth and hoosie whatsits ;D i guess im wanting to make an backup because that is the spirit of the original machines. you didnt need to program new stuff if something failed. you pulled out the broken part and put in a new one. monmotha. i dual boot ubuntu/xp. but ive screwed things up before when i wasnt a hundred percent about what i was doing in the terminal. i was hoping for something equivalent to copying tapes like when we were kids. you didnt need a degree for that. you put the original tape in one deck, the blank tape in the other. press play/record. hey presto! exact copy! im beginning to realise that there isnt an equivalent of that. that it can be done, but type something in wrong and you risk wiping over the drive instead of copying it! maybe norton ghost is exactly what i want, but i dont want to buy/steal... i have copied all the unique files i could think of, including all the mame files, desk top image, macro settings (i think, its been years, dont remember how i made it in the first place!) --- End quote --- The trick is to copy your working mame folders (already set up and woking the way you like) from your working HHD to the nlite xp disk. This is from SpyStyle's setup: "There is an interesting trick - all files and folders added to : C:\MAME-XP\XP CD\$OEM$\$1 Will be copied to the root of the hard drive during the installation of the operating system. For example, if you copy a folder called "MAME" to that folder you would end up with : C:\MAME on the arcade machine's computer (after MAME-XP is installed). Therefore, if you have a DVD burner and you can get your MAME set small enough to fit on a DVD-R disk, or a DVD-R DL disk if your burner supports it, you could possibly have everything copied to the hard drive during the OS install. Cool huh? " ...so if your computer fails just pop in your disk, and re-install. Windows, mame, etc. will set themselves up just like you had them before. Tard-proof, once your disk is made! |
| MonMotha:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on December 28, 2008, 02:45:25 am ---monmotha. i dual boot ubuntu/xp. but ive screwed things up before when i wasnt a hundred percent about what i was doing in the terminal. i was hoping for something equivalent to copying tapes like when we were kids. you didnt need a degree for that. you put the original tape in one deck, the blank tape in the other. press play/record. hey presto! exact copy! --- End quote --- Then do it in Windows. My goal was to give you something that would work with minimal to no additional required software. One of the neat things about Linux (and just about every OS other than Windows) is that you can pull stuff like this off without finding oddball pieces of 3rd party software with strange interfaces. If you want a point-and-drool interface, stick to Windows, since the Ubuntu GUI isn't designed to let you do anything like this. |
| daywane:
--- Quote from: daywane on December 28, 2008, 09:23:04 am ---If A PC crashes no big deal. install windows. Plug in Maxtor one touch . drag all my files back into place. I bet I could be back to running order in just over 1 hr --- End quote --- WELL.... I just tried this out. started with a 1.2 ghz PC 512 meg memory 30 gig hard drive Had windows xp sp2 on it. Plugged in Maxtor one touch. 7:am Did not think of the USB 1 VS USB2 :dizzy: I just dragged Mame Version 78 to it (with all the settings and all the bells a whistles) 11:30 still going. :-[ Bad thing is I have a PCI USB 2.0 card right here. never even thought of putting it in. |
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