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Harpal:

SORRY ABOUT THIS BUT MY CAPSLOCK BUTTON IS JAMMED AND I CANT TAKE IT OFF, SO PLS STAY CALM......NOT LIKE SOME ;D

ANYWAY DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HARD DRIVES????
AS I WAS TRYING TO FROMAT THIS DRIVE AND IT IS ONLY FORMATING PART OF IT, AND THEN STOPS, AND AS I DONT HAVE A PARTIONING PROGRAM I USED WIN XP BOOT CD TO FORMAT THE DRIVE, AND THROUGH THIS IT SHOWS THE ENITRE DRIVE, BUT WHEN I AM FORMATING IT,
IT STOPS ON 58% AND DOES NOT MOVE ANY MORE AND THEN IT COMES UP DRIVE ERROR AND HOW IT CANT READ IT......

ANY HELP  ON THIS????

USSEnterprise:
your disk is probably bad. Here is what you must do:
1. Go out and buy a new drive.
2. Take the old drive and place it on a piece of concrete.
3. Take a sledge hammer and hit the drive repeatedly, until it is no longer recognizable as a hard drive.

Wetworks:
Sounds like you are new to this. (computers). You will need dos drivers for your soundcard. Skip dos . Install XP. Learn how to install windows command line mame. There will be a folder there. This is where you will place your roms. Find a frontend you like (I use Mamewah and so do a lot of others). There is a setup program for this frontend now. There is heaps of sites dedicated to setting up this stuff. Use Google!
Btw what CPU are you using some smaller processors don't like big hard drives.
Oh yeah and BACKUP everything!
Hope this points you in the right direction.

D5A1AC:
There are a lot of shops that will take a damaged hard drive and attempt to recover it's content. If you don't fiddle around with the hard drive you managed to drop, some or even all of the data may be recoverable in which case you should take it to one of those sort of shops and get them to take a look at it. That way you won't have to learn a thing about mame.

Also, if you're running windows XP on the computer that you post on, go to start>all programs>accessories>accesibility>on screen keyboard and hit the lock button. This would be a good temporary solution for your 'jammed' caps lock button...

Harpal:
cheers for that, the caplock is off now ;D

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