Copy ES1 Nirin hard drive.

[downtownarcade]

I have failing hard drive that I need to copy before it dies. How can I copy this drive to a SSD?

 

[BilonFullHDemon]

I have failing hard drive that I need to copy before it dies. How can I copy this drive to a SSD?

Maybe HDDRawCopy1.20Portable.exe

 

[nem]

You'll brick the drive if you do it in Windows.

https://medium.com/@ValdikSS/resear...overing-namco-system-es1-arcades-1f8423fdeb3b

 

[Mrhide]

You'll brick the system

fixed it

 

[downtownarcade]

Ya, I get hooking it to a Windows system will mess up the drive. It needs to be done in Linux, just don't know how

 

[nem]

dd in terminal.

You can find instructions online. Remember to add status=progress to your command. I always forget to do that.

 

[downtownarcade]

You taking about this?
https://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?t=33526

 

[Darksoft]

You taking about this?
https://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?t=33526

No, he means that you can find instructions about how to use DD.
@downtownarcade Notice that we don't allow people asking for HDD images of games. Posts asking for this will be deleted.

 

[downtownarcade]

So with dd I'll be able to just copy the drive with no extra steps?

 

[nem]

You can clone the drive and the original drive will still work.

 

[Mrhide]

… does that works with maximum tune 3?

 

[nem]

You can clone the drive, but the clone won't work on the Namco N2. The game image is tied to the harddrive. The clone drive would need to be the exact same model with a copied serial.

I'm just saying dd is a safe way to clone drives, nothing else.

 

[Darksoft]

 

[downtownarcade]

So I'm going with dd.
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc status=progress

Using this command with the input and output drives connected to their corresponding sdb and sdc