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jammajunk

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Hello guys,

I'm trying to replace the old 80GB IDE hardrive for a modern SSD. The hard drive is a typical 240gb Kingston SSD. The original hdd feels a bit.. noisy. It's somewhat concerning.

With the SSD So far the game goes and shows "boot 01" then later "boot 03", then goes to the NOW LOADING white text and stays there forever.

  1. I am using 40 pin IDE to Adapter By Startech . The adapter is set to MASTER
  2. I used gdvsgdnx_gnx100-1na-a.chd as a source file, converted it into a raw image using chdman
  3. I used HDDRawCopy to copy the image to the blank, unformatted, untouched SSD

I'm suspected that perhaps there is a difference in the final copy due to me using HddRawCopy instead of chdman. I'm currently "redumping" the ssd with chdman to a file to see if there are any differences.

.. or perhaps there's a version difference between my security dongle, my original hdd and the image?

My next step will be to dump using chdman my original IDE drive, i'm just wondering if any potential drive errors could cause issues.
 
I would take an image file, uncompressed even if you can, of your original hdd with a raw disk imager (i.e. dd in Linux, or I think rawhddcopy tool or something like that for Windows). No need to work with CHD unless your original drive is inoperable. Then use the raw disk image to create the SSD with the same [type of] utility.
 
skate323k137 said:
I would take an image file, uncompressed even if you can, of your original hdd with a raw disk imager (i.e. dd in Linux, or I think rawhddcopy tool or something like that for Windows). No need to work with CHD unless your original drive is inoperable. Then use the raw disk image to create the SSD with the same [type of] utility.
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Yeah, I think it's my next step. I've noticed that there are lot of 'bad' images floating around, The older image I had wouldn't process with chdman, and it would give a mysterious 'out of memory' image, so I had to resort to finding another image.

I checked and the label of my security dongle is GNX1001-NA-A , and the filename is GNX100-1na-A, so odd naming scheme aside, it seems to match, so it's not a version issue.

I'll try copying straight from the old disk to the new one using dd
 
jammajunk said:
Yeah, I think it's my next step. I've noticed that there are lot of 'bad' images floating around, The older image I had wouldn't process with chdman, and it would give a mysterious 'out of memory' image, so I had to resort to finding another image.

I checked and the label of my security dongle is GNX1001-NA-A , and the filename is GNX100-1na-A, so odd naming scheme aside, it seems to match, so it's not a version issue.

I'll try copying straight from the old disk to the new one using dd
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Cool, hopeful this will work for you. I have a properly extracted CHD of a different 246/256 HDD, and it worked on the first HDD I imaged it to. Fingers crossed for ya.
 
I’ve been wanting to do this also. I was gonna say clone the original drive instead of the CHD as skate said.
 
I cloned the old drive directly to the new one using HddRawCopy, and I got the same results. I am doing to assume that the problem comes from the StarTech adapter. This is pretty strange.. Maybe it's not compatible?

It stays at the "Now Loading" black and white screen, just before it shows the configuration settings.

If someone has tried to do this, please reply!
 
In the same situation except I cannot even get to the now loading screen, using the exact same adapter and ssd, the img i burned was from the 2X6 archive rollup pack.
 
I'd be curious, has anyone gotten sata hdds working? As those are at least more accesible and easier to find
 
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