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Is anyone here willing to dump a Megatouch MAXX Diamond for me?

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BobBorakovitz:
Is anyone here willing to dump a Megatouch MAXX Diamond for me?  I aquired one almost a year ago that has a bad drive and I'd love to get it fixed for the holidays for everyone to play.  I've heard about using a compact flash adapter - I think I'm going to go that route eventually, but have some (really) old hard drives laying around that should work.  Thank you to anyone who can help. 

Long live BYOAC! (forums, at least)

lilshawn:
You will have to source a replacement hard drive for your machine first. the hard drive ID has to match the original drive (EX: "merit00") in order for it to work. this means obtaining the firmware of the drive, changing the data, and then uploading it to the drive ROM. This was done to ensure people would only buy from them.

BobBorakovitz:
that doesn't sound too bad...i would think that i should be able to find the hardware id in a hex editor and change it out before flashing it.

also - it would probably be easier on a compact flash drive and adapter, no?

mahkeymike:
If you can find a working drive that is the same model, you could just swap the circuit board. That is only if the circuit board isnt the problem. If it is then your probably $hit out of luck. Also, I dont think its going to be easy to dump the firmware from the drive unless maybe theres a dos or linux software tool to do low level flashing. A simple firmware update wont touch the boot loader rom.

lilshawn:
the problem is that the data you write to the firmware has to be checksummed. otherwise the drive won't initialize. It's not an easy task with these older machines due to the copyright scheme used (although not impossible)

after FORCE version 2005.5, merit removed the hard drive ID requirement on the HD allowing you to put in any drive and load the software on it (albeit later a small disclaimer was displayed on installation saying this was not an "Official" merit drive, and saying that it's not factory warrantied to install it on this drive, it still works.)

Your best bet may be to simply source another hard drive for it and play it till it dies... by then the market will be flooded with LCD flatscreen ION's and you could buy one for a couple hunskies.

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