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best way to copy your mame hard drive to a new one


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using either linux OR XP. im not proud, i just want the absolute easiest way to do it. so that even a 'tard like me can do it :badgrin

 

you know what its like. setting it up for your cab, with macros and settings etc to just suit. if you had to start from scratch, it would be quite tedious.

 

ive been meaning to do this for a while. i had a scare last night and realised i better do it before i WISH id done it. in fact, this drive is a copy a friend made for me from the original, so its certainly worth the effort.

 

so whats the best thing for me to make an ISO of it (i guess thats what i need to do) and then plug in another hard drive and put the image on that- ready to rock and roll again?

 

ive posted this question on the ubuntu forum as well, but it only takes about 30 minutes there before the thread is on the second page and gone for good (practically anyway)

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hmm, im not sure i 'get' any of those things. maybe its more complicated than i thought. i might have to rephrase the question as 'who in brissie wants a six pack of beer to make a back up hard drive for me' :lol

 

edit: i forgot to mention that basically the hard drive is win98 stripped back, MAME and ROMS and some fiddly bits like a macro and such. the whole thing is less than one gig. the hard drive itself is 4gig.

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It depends on the source drive. If it's a boot drive (ie. with OS and everything) then you will have to use clone software like ghost. But I don't recommend you do that anyway unless it's the same PC with the same hardware. You should reinstall the OS from scratch if that's the case.

 

If it is just plain old data, just plug the drive in and copy the files across. Shouldn't be a problem.

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It depends on the source drive. If it's a boot drive (ie. with OS and everything) then you will have to use clone software like ghost. But I don't recommend you do that anyway unless it's the same PC with the same hardware. You should reinstall the OS from scratch if that's the case.

 

If it is just plain old data, just plug the drive in and copy the files across. Shouldn't be a problem.

 

ahhh. i might email my friend back in darwin and find out what he did. im pretty sure he took the drive home with him. hes a programmer though. he probably has a butt load of stuff at his disposal. hell probably patiently describe how to do it, and at the end ill still say 'huh?' :D

 

hes the one that put me onto linux...

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Go to http://www.2brightsparks.com/, download and install SyncBackupSE (its free)

 

back it up to another drive or USB stick or something OR use std DVD backup software, nero whatever and burn the directories you need.

 

what your looking at is a straight backup really and cloning the drive would be pointless due to hardware and softw3are differences.

 

I did exactly this with my Mamewah cab. it's about 4gig all up

 

brad

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Hi Danny!

 

Did you get this sorted? Copying the drive is probably going to actually be the easiest part.

 

If the new hardware does not exactly match the old one, then you are going to probably find that it won't even boot. What was the Operating System of the original machine? Is it Win98? "Plug and Play" on first boot may resolve the issues but you are probably going to be prompted for various OS and driver discs as it reconfigures it self. And this is likely to be the best scenario.

 

The best approach would be to do a basic build of the new hardware to Operating System level and then just do an ordinary file to file copy via various methods from one machine to the other. If you have new hardware, chances are that it will have a network card already integrated into the MB. Or USB would probably be the next best bet, but Win98 has limited USB support. This makes life much easier in the future.

 

using either linux OR XP. im not proud, i just want the absolute easiest way to do it. so that even a 'tard like me can do it :badgrin

 

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hi all,

 

I just used clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/ to take a backup of my HDD, it's a live boot cd, lets you burn an image to a networked drive (I used samba to a share on another windows PC) or another attached dive to the PC, my initial impression is it's seems very good.

 

If you doing some backups or clones give it a shot.

 

cheers

Matt

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