CD to COMPACT FLASH on MEGATOUCH

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I am trying to convert my megatouch GOLD to load from compact flash , and not cd.

I have bought a compact flash to ide adapter, and a 2 gig compact flash card(copied all the cd files to my cf card). When i unhook the cd player from the megatouch and plug in the adapter, it tries to boot but the machine does not go to the right drive to look for the game files. I think by default the cf card drive is not being set to the right drive letter.

i did go into the cmos and detect the cf drive, I think it is set to c by default.

anybody had any luck doing this.

Maybe this cant be done on the gold megatouch.

I tried to search the web/megatouch page, to no avail.

thanks
chris
 
tell me if you succeed in finding that cd to cf/ide converter.

afaik, cf controller commands might be identical to hdd controller, but not with cdrom drive controller. there is a converter out there, that convert ide to sata. there is sata hdd, so it *might* be work. but i never tried that.
 
Did you do a disc image onto the cf card or just copy the files? My guess is that the machine is looking for the master boot record so it knows where to boot the OS from.
 
thank you

I have send email to megatouch store dave...



i will let you know what he says on a post here..

Thanks
chris
 
http://randyfromm.com/amusements/techdept/XL_hard_drive_conversion.htm


I am trying to convert my megatouch GOLD to load from compact flash , and not cd.

I have bought a compact flash to ide adapter, and a 2 gig compact flash card(copied all the cd files to my cf card). When i unhook the cd player from the megatouch and plug in the adapter, it tries to boot but the machine does not go to the right drive to look for the game files. I think by default the cf card drive is not being set to the right drive letter.

i did go into the cmos and detect the cf drive, I think it is set to c by default.

anybody had any luck doing this.

Maybe this cant be done on the gold megatouch.

I tried to search the web/megatouch page, to no avail.

thanks
chris
 
If I remember correctly, there is a jumper on the motherboard that must be switched if you want to run the game from a hard drive instead of the cd. Look on the motherboard for JP1, Eprom enable. The jumper must be removed.

You usually get the error message "Invalid Drive Specifications" when you need to do this. This is only on the XL motherboard platform.

Clay
 
If I remember correctly, there is a jumper on the motherboard that must be switched if you want to run the game from a hard drive instead of the cd. Look on the motherboard for JP1, Eprom enable. The jumper must be removed.

I believe that is on the I/O board.
But yes, there is a jumper that needs removed (JP1) to enable HDD.

I'm not sure if you need a different "Boot EEPROM" found on the same I/O board.

Use the tutorial posted above to insure that the CF card is formatted as a "bootable disc" before copying any files over to it.
(it mentions NOT being able to do Gold though, so not sure what will happen or why)
 
So what did Dave ever have to say about this? Did you get the gold cd copied to the flash card and working?
 
what os is on your computer.
pm me and i can tell you what to do so it will boot.
 
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