How to copy a jamma hard drive ?

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Hello

I have an dedicated Golden Tee 2006 cabinet. The hard drive is going bad ? How can i copy the ROM/files (whatever you call it) to another good hard drive ?

The drive is 7.5 GB IDE.

I have been looking on google and can't seem to find a answer.

I have hooked up the drive to a USB external hard drive enclosure and Windows find the drive but it tells me it not initialized. I am guessing because Jamma board hard drive are using special file format.

Any help would be great.

Ps I am using windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
 
do a search for CHDMAN.EXE

Or, in *nix variant OSes (BSD, Linux, MacOS X), you don't even need it, you can just dd the disk to a file (or another drive).

Some machines are picky about the type of drive they use - don't know about Golden Tee, but I know that some games need a patched ROM to boot from a non-factory drive.

-Ian
 
GT complete doesnt need any special roms, just copy it and your good to go(that is of course if yours isnt toast already). 20gb to 40gb drive will work, its actually more expensive on ebay these days to find smaller drives..(funny how that works), you can get a good drive for 15 shipped (singlely, I buy in bulk at 3.50 each usually) or just buy one someone has already made for 25-30 and be done with it.
 
Thank for all the info.

Unfortunately, nothing you guys suggested works.

on a nix system, try several the hard drive is not recognize (just like under windows) so therefore clonezilla did not work.

CHDMAN.EXE well, you need a drive letter to use it which i cannot get since the drive in
status "Unknown"

Any other ideas ?
 
If your drive is already totally shot, disk cloning tools aren't going to help you. If the drive is "dying" but can still be read, ddrescue should pull a good image fine. If the drive isn't recognized *at all* (i.e. it doesn't get its own /dev/sd* or /dev/hd* device file under Linux) you're pretty much screwed, but it doesn't sound like that's what's happening.

Boot up a machine in Linux, inventory all the /dev/sdX devices, hook up the drive in the USB enclosure, figure out which sdX device wasn't there before, and
Code:
ddrescue /dev/sdX <mountpoint of some other, real hard drive>/goldentee.img /tmp/ddrescue.log

Assuming it finishes successfully, you should now have a good image in "goldentee.img" you can stick on another drive. Whether the game will acknowledge any old hard drive, though, is anyone's guess; you may have to experiment with different drive brands and models.
 
CHDMAN will work, you didnt research it all. Theres no 'Drive Letter' involved.
chdman -createhd gtcomplete.chd \\.\physicaldrive1 (or which ever drive number it is)

that should get you started, but please do some REAL research , I did one small google search and found a whole howto copy harddrives with chdman
 
The drive is recognized, just not the partitions or filesystems on it, since it's custom to the game hardware. On *nix, do a dmesg and look for the disk device. It just won't see a filesystem on it, so you can't mount it. You use the raw disk device with dd, not the mountpoint.

And in Windows, there is a way to specify the physical device with CHDMAN, you just have to look it up in Computer Management. ( I think. Not a Windows guy )

-Ian
 
I have used chdman many times . As long as windows recognizes that a drive is hooked up you can image it with chdman . I follow these instructions :
http://www.thekillerinstinctproject.com/kiproject/chdman.html
You go into drive management and see what drive # windows assigned to the drive , 0,1,2 etc.....
Just make sure you check what drive number is assigned to the new drive as well as sometimes it comes up different .
Good luck to you , i am sure you will get it .
 
personally, ive tried this in the past with other games, ive never had much luck..

instead, i just do this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GOLDEN-TEE-...910?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307c069f6

For $25, the frustration is not worth my time.

In your case, this may be a larger drive than what you have. You need to check the boot rom version on your board. If its not 2.09, you will need to buy or burn a new boot rom too otherwise if you use a bigger drive with the old boot rom, it will freeze up lock up at random times..

Ive bought alot of drives from arcade services, always fast shipping, always a great product. mabye someone in our group like topless z could burn you a drive and boot rom and sell it to you, i dunno lets see if somebdy steps up for ya.
 
Thanks guys

I got it to work but it was a pain thought.... Chdman did not work at all windows 7 64 bit but work perfectly on 32 bit.... Also the trick was that my USB enclosure had 2 USB connection and it did not work. I had another one that was 1 USB connection and it worked perfectly.

Took me a few hours but at the end, got the ROM backup and copied to the new hard drive.
 
Thanks guys

I got it to work but it was a pain thought.... Chdman did not work at all windows 7 64 bit but work perfectly on 32 bit.... Also the trick was that my USB enclosure had 2 USB connection and it did not work. I had another one that was 1 USB connection and it worked perfectly.

Took me a few hours but at the end, got the ROM backup and copied to the new hard drive.

I've seen this type. The second connection is for extra power -- USB limits current draw to 500mA per port, so a lot of cheap, crappy enclosures have just a 12V wall supply and use double USB connections to deliver a little shy of 1A to the 5V input of the connected drive. It's probably set up to not turn on if one isn't connected to prevent damage to the host (as in, your computer).
 
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