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Title: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Need help! on April 27, 2002, 09:44:22 am: 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?
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: planetjay on April 27, 2002, 11:08:18 am: I've heard from a local operator that you can't. I think I'd try Norton Ghost myself. ;)
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Lilwolf on April 27, 2002, 11:31:57 pm: 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..)
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Need help! on April 28, 2002, 12:51:55 am: 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?
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Lilwolf on April 28, 2002, 08:52:39 pm: 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)
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: SirPoonga on April 28, 2002, 09:19:12 pm: Quote
I recently bought a Blitz 2000 arcade for home, and upon opening it up, I noticed there's a PC hard drive in it!
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Need help! on April 29, 2002, 10:31:21 pm: 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.
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: SirPoonga on April 29, 2002, 10:42:10 pm: 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.
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Need help! on April 30, 2002, 09:32:31 pm: Thanks, I can try that, but are there any imaging tools for Linux?
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Lilwolf on May 01, 2002, 12:26:55 pm: 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)
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: Need help! on May 01, 2002, 10:22:16 pm: 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?
Title: Re: Imaging my blitz 2000!
Post by: SirPoonga on May 03, 2002, 04:53:32 pm: basically, you know you will have to probably mount the drive. Make sure to read the dd man pages and howtos.