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I think my hard drive failed
mvsfan:
also i dont know much about oem systems with a compressed hard drive but if its possible to somehow put that image onto a compact flash or something like it it will change catastrophic failure into a simple remove and replace operation provided youve made backups. also the cards dont fail as much.
DeLuSioNal29:
There's a guy on e-bay that sells used replacement drives for various hard drive based PCBs. He also sells marquees and repairs PCBs so knows his stuff. http://stores.shop.ebay.com/ARCADE-SERVICES__W0QQ_armrsZ1
His username on ebay is arcade-services1
Good luck!
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mvsfan:
yeah if this is true, i hope it is, forget what i said. this guys got replacement Chds for 25 bucks, just take it.
DeLuSioNal29:
You mean replacement HDDs, not CHDs. He has the real deal which attaches to a genuine PCB. CHDs are for MAME.
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Necroticart:
CHDs are for mame but all they are is a compressed image taken from the games hard drive and as far as I've read they can be imaged to a new hard drive or the new thing is to use a compact flash kit also the program used is chdman.exe hope this helps with your problem
here are a few links about it never had to restore an image myself before but good to know you can
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/15708-13-restore-actual-hard-drive
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140119
also this info would be a nice addition some place in the wiki as it helps all those trying to restore a machine with a messed up hard disk
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