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Title: What's the best way to transfer ROMs from DVD
Post by: Fusion Disaster on March 24, 2005, 02:29:33 am

I just picked up a complete set of ROMs and it seems my PC bogs down when transferring rom files from DVD to my machine. Granted some of the delay is due to my slow DVD rom drive, but I think there is still a better way I'm not using. FYI - to transfer the files, I select the folders from the DVD rom, and then drag and drop them into the appropriate folder. Some times it takes like 10 mins to actually start copying, it'll load into a "Preparing to copy" screen, and then eventually starts transferring. I think Windows is interferring too much somehow.

Any Ideas?

Title: Re: What's the best way to transfer ROMs from DVD
Post by: richms on March 24, 2005, 05:47:16 am

Open a command prompt and do it there, windows explorer does stupid things when you try to move a lot of files at once. I have had it run the swap file out of space when copying like that.

Title: Re: What's the best way to transfer ROMs from DVD
Post by: Fusion Disaster on March 24, 2005, 10:57:13 am

Thanks richms, that works much much better.

Just FYI for anyone else in my situation. I have only one DVD rom in my main computer and have to transfer the files from it to my remote arcade PC. If you want to do this through the DOS prompt you have to first mount your remote computers harddrive as a virtual drive on your main computer. To do this type:

NET USE W: \\SYSTEM1\DOCS

Where SYSTEM1 is the name of your remote computer, and DOCS is a sub folder, likely C (as I have my whole C drive shared for remote update). You must provide the PC name and at least one level deep into a subfolder.

Then just do a COPY command from your dvd drive to your roms folder. My command looked like this:

D:\NES\Roms> copy * z: \\fusioncade\c\nes\roms\.

Hope that helps someone down the road.