Hard drive for Crossdire Max paintball

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It uses Linux, and I get a lot of errors on boot up. file failure. I've tried to hook it up as external drive to laptop and PC to scan for hard drive failure. No bad sectors. I don't know if it's files on the OS, or in the game. Will it only run in Linux(I don't have a copy of Linux), can I have it run off Windows? Or does anyone have possibly .CHD files for the game? I want to play it, got it at auction for like $30, and i hooked everything up, just has hard drive issue. Wanted to play it if nothing else for something to do when i'm not playing poker. :) Any help would be appreciated. Thnx guys.
 
I have some experience with Crossfire. I don't think there is a way to copy the drive. The drive must be "activated" by the company using some secret method. The drive is shipped with an activation key (a 10 digit number I think). When the drive gets powered up you have to go to the diagnostics screen and select "activation" from the menu to enter the key. If your drive is already activated, you will not see this in the menu. In addition to the activation key, there is a security chip (looks like a button battery complete with + and - on or near the little interface board on the PCB). The chip doesn't fit well in the socket/holder and may need to be moved back to the center of the holder. Verify it is in correctly (putting it in backwards will not damage it but it won't work right) and that someone hasn't removed it and replaced it with a battery by mistake.

If all checks out and it turns out you do need a complete new drive, they run about $150 shipped from the manufacturer.... and they have some spare encryption chips too for about $50 each if yours is missing.
 
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