california speed hard drive error

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Please help! I am getting a hdd error message when you turn game on. I removed the hard drive and had a computer person check it and he couldnt acces any data from hard drive. How do I find the data to put on a new hard drive? also Where do i find a 5 gig hard drive?
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download the CHD file that is used for MAME and
'burn' it to another hdd. Call your local PC repair shops to see if they have any used smaller size hdd. Probably find it for a few bucks. Compact flash route is too expensive.

Search chd to hdd. I saw it somewhere when i needed help with ST Voyager.
 
doing a compact flash conversion is what, about $30-$40 depending on the size of the card needed? you'd never need to worry about a failing hard drive again, and you can always keep a second card with the image file on it just in case. any used drive you buy is going to be suspect, even if it's really cheap.

you could also buy a HD off of eBay pre-loaded with the image file; looks like less than $30 shipped. though of course again, these are probably used and not brand new.
 
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