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Post by kinghanco on Jun 8, 2007 13:27:17 GMT -5
IsoBuster and cdrwin doesn't like Vista very well.
Those programs get buggy on Vista to read the sectors on Track 02.
I recommend don't use Vista to dumps the tracks.
If you got Vista then forget about dumping.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 8, 2007 16:23:51 GMT -5
Personally, I'd be looking to dump Vista rather than PSXDB. But then, I'm working towards dumping Windows altogether. I suppose I'll still have to use Windows at work, though. And that's a pretty horrifying experience. Imagine running as a thin client over a network with somewhat lower speeds than a dialup modem... and then, of course, it's administered by a bunch of job-protecting monkeys... Pretty average for your local Council IT network, I suppose.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 8, 2007 22:57:49 GMT -5
Dumping without the audio tracks is ok. But when you dump the data with the audio tracks then the audio isn't dump correctly without dumping with the right offset. They said that they don't won't to hear another word about Vista won't let the sectors to be read fully and then they banned me off of psxdb channel. They also told me to go back to XP and get this straight out. They lost this dumper that have alot of psx cds. Oh well.
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Post by Ultima on Jun 11, 2007 15:55:10 GMT -5
Eh? They banned you just because you were using Vista? Did you like... bug them repeatedly about the same problems or something?
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 11, 2007 18:27:13 GMT -5
More likely I just trying to find out why IsoBuster and CDRWIN can't read the sectors fully. They keep telling me that it is Vista problem and that I should get rid of Vista.
IsoBuster people said it is my dvd and cd burners problem when using Vista. It is not Vista problem as well. There is something they aren't telling everyone about. Maybe IsoBuster isn't compatible to Vista at all and they just want to make money instead of telling the people it doesn't work very well on Vista and we should stick onto XP instead.
This is why I retired because IsoBuster and CDRWIN can't read the sectors on track 02. Those programs are like trash on Vista but isn't trash on XP.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 12, 2007 1:25:26 GMT -5
I'm thinking about split my hard drive partition in half. Then reinstall XP on one side and Vista on the other side. Maybe I can get things to work better this way. If things doesn't right on Vista then I will try XP.
2 X 80 = 160gb.
I got to get out of this retirement.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 12, 2007 13:35:17 GMT -5
If you've got a 160GB hard drive, there's a much better way to do it, kinghanco.
Make a couple of 20 or 30 GB partitions for the two operating systems (or however much you need. The better you set it up the less size you'll need for the system partitions) and just use the 100-120GB that's left for data storage.
That way, you can use the same storage space for both OSs and save duplicating a lot of stuff - the same BIOSs, memory cards, images and save states for pSX, for instance - and other Playstation emulators, although you may not be able to share save states. You can also keep other game saves there, email accounts, bookmarks files, etc - and access them from either OS. You can store all your ripped video, audio, all your downloaded software, etc, up to the limit of the space you've got available - mind you, 100-120GB doesn't always last that long, now. So you add another drive...
It also means that if you want to format and reinstall either or both OSs, you can do so without affecting your stored data. Reinstall, set up the links for your email, emulators, etc again. All the stuff you saved, you've still got. I do this with Windows and Linux accounts on the same computer. A lot of stuff is interchangeable: if, for instance, you use a cross-platform browser and email client like Firefox and Thunderbird, you can download your email in one OS and read it in another - and reply to it in a third one if you install another OS. You can play a game in pSX in one OS and pick it up in ePSXe in another OS - from the same image and memory card.
I'd recommend always creating a separate partition for data storage even if you only have one OS installed - that way you can keep it all if you have to flatten the OS partition. But if you want to run multiple OSs, it's the only way to go.
BTW if you dual boot Windows and Linux, make the data storage partition(s) a Windows format, as most current Linux OSs can read NTFS partitions and read and write to FAT32 partitions, but Windows can't access the file systems Linux usually uses. I used to store things like Playstation CD images on an NTFS partition and still be able to read them in Linux, and I'd keep media I needed to be able to write to, like memory cards and email accounts, on a FAT32 partition. However, I've found that Ubuntu 7.04's NTFS reading/writing works fine, so as of Feisty, you can use NTFS partitions entirely for data storage.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 14, 2007 1:35:38 GMT -5
Bad news for SATA 160gb hard drive. I mess it up by installing Vista and using XP to formated the 2nd partition. This SATA hard drive won't let the motherboard boot it up. It said that the partition is bad. Another thing that I can't get the cd drive or floopy to work so that I can fix the boot up. Also F8 (Choose to boot screen.) doesn't even work. I don't know what XP done but it screw the boot and partition up on the SATA hard drive.
Right now I'm upset and I don't even know it will even boot on XP after that I buy SATA USB case to boot it after XP boot up.
I yank it out of my computer and put it up until I get someone to help me out to get rid of both partiton and both windows.
Someone told me that SATA USB case won't let my SATA hard drive to boot up on XP. Well I do have a ATA USB with a ATA hard drive which does boot on XP or Vista. I have no idea why he told me it won't work.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 14, 2007 2:38:46 GMT -5
Did you have the whole drive as one partition with Vista on it, kinghanco? In that case, you must have had to shrink the Vista partition - this is always a risky procedure. I'd always use a reliable application like Partition Magic running from floppy or CD to do this - and even then there's a risk. AFAIK if you used your XP Windows disc to create a new partition by taking space from the Vista partition, you may well have destroyed the Vista one. Which partition did your computer say was bad? It's always safest to create the partitions you want before installing anything on a drive.
You may have to enable your SATA drive in BIOS. Also, if you set the boot order in BIOS to CD first, then floppy, then hard drive, you should be able to boot from floppy or CD.
If you can get the computer to start from a Windows floppy or CD, you should be able to format the drive, at least, although that'll mean losing all your data and starting again - reread my last post!
By 'SATA USB case,' do mean you have the drive mounted in an external case and connected with USB? You may have to set that in BIOS as the boot drive, or you motherboard may not be able to boot from that combination.
Anyway, if you can't boot from CD or floppy either and you can't fix it in BIOS, it may be that you've fried something by handling it without adequate antistatic precautions - or by changing stuff round without disconnecting the power supply.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2007 5:10:26 GMT -5
It's interesting that I always handle stuff without antistatic precautions and sometimes switch stuff around when the power cable is still connected but I have yet to have a hardware failure resulted from it. Just lucky I guess. ;D Though it just might be a good idea to change this while I'm still golden. And yeah, always create partitions before installing anything to the drive. Partition Magic and the like can only do so much. Few days ago I was planning to install my mom a new boot drive from 80 gig sata drive, but the computer didn't want to boot up after I plugged the drive in the mobo. It didn't even get far enough for me to go to bios. Initially I thought that the problem might be with the psu, that the sata drive finally pushed it over it's capacity. However, after a lot of plugging things in and out I managed to isolate the problem in the onboard sata controller. Not fun. So now I'm waiting for a new mobo for me to install. I probably need to get some thermal compound too when I move the cpu to the mobo. So much work for a new hard drive.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 14, 2007 12:58:17 GMT -5
How many times have I heard that? Static discharges don't just completely fry equipment. Often, just a component doesn't work - or even just doesn't work properly...
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 14, 2007 14:34:32 GMT -5
Well I didn't mess with the cables or anything on the SATA hard drive while it was partition 2nd part. There 4 jumpers on it.
Master/Slave jumper not requed for SATA. Jumpered pins 1 and 2 disable SSC (Spectrum Clocking). Jumpered pins 3 and 4 enable PMS (Power-Up in Standby).
On the bottom showing this on the green part.
SSC_DIS (1-2) PM2 (3-4) OPT1 (5-6) OPT2 (7-8)
That all. The jumper been on (1-2). Oh yea I have a lot of plastic jumpers in a can. If I need to set this up another way then let me know. Too bad that I can't set this up as a slave to see anything gos.
Western Digital WD Caviar Serial ATA Hard Drive Drive Parameters: LBA 312581808 160.0 GB WD P/N: WD1600JD-00HBB0
S/N: WCAL91224447 MDL: WD1600JD-00HBB0 DATE: 25 AUG 2004 DCM: HSCACTJAA
5VDC 0.92A 12VDC 0.90A
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Right now I'm cleaning up the storage hard drive to get rid of junkies that is on it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 11:56:09 GMT -5
How many times have I heard that? Static discharges don't just completely fry equipment. Often, just a component doesn't work - or even just doesn't work properly... But are those people you hear this seasoned computer veterans? I hope you don't just always assume that something is broken due to lack of antistatic measures? I don't exactly rub my hands to the carpet to charge myself up and poke my fingers in the mobo you know. ;D More likely cause is that the mobo was just broken from the start (crappy manufacturer ASRock, euh) and unfortunately ran out of warranty before I actually decided to test the sata ports. Either way it's busted. In general though I should probably get my hands on one those wrist straps, they cost next to nothing anyway. I do afterall open up mine or someone elses computer surprisingly often, usually just for maintenance, but sometimes for new hardware installs as well. I'd hate to fry something, especially if it isn't mine. Oh and kinghanco, out of curiosity, have you tried the drive without any jumpers? None of the SATA drives I have required any jumpers at all. I'm not exactly sure what Spectrum Clocking is in relation to SATA drives though.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 15, 2007 14:34:55 GMT -5
Well, I'll just say that if get a wrist strap and start using it, you may be surprised at how much less things like this happen - and also how niggling little faults (particularly around things 'just not working like they should) don't seem to be happening any more. As I said, the faults caused by static discharges often aren't obvious. One useful addition to a wrist strap is to get a stackable 4mm plug, solder a lead on, and connect the other end to the earth pin of a mains plug (if your electrical supply has sockets that include an earth connection - otherwise, you'll need to make other earthing arrangements). You usually have a 4mm plug at the end of an antistatic wriststrap lead that the crocodile clip fits on to. If you want to disconnect the mains supply completely from your power supply - or if you're still building the thing, or you need to remove the power supply - you can put the stackable plug between the antistatic lead and the clip and earth the lead on the stackable plug. Now you can put the clip on the computer chassis to earth it while you work. I usually save the antistatic bags that motherboards come in, too. If you put your earthed antistatic clip on that, you can use it as a safe work surface for working on cards etc. Very useful for putting coolers on videocards, as videocards can be very susceptible to static damage. kinghanco: no, I was talking about settings you can change in your motherboard BIOS. Check the documentation on your motherboard; usually you access the settings by pressing a key when you switch on - most often the Delete key. Be careful what you change - you can mess things up royally if you don't know what you're doing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 16:14:39 GMT -5
Well, I'll just say that if get a wrist strap and start using it, you may be surprised at how much less things like this happen - and also how niggling little faults (particularly around things 'just not working like they should) don't seem to be happening any more. As I said, the faults caused by static discharges often aren't obvious. Off the top of my head I can't really think of any hardware that might have been not working optimally (other than the mobo, but I blame ASRock for that ). So less things like this would mean that I would have negative number of hardware problems. ;D As I said, just lucky I guess. Only hardware that ever has crapped out on me was a fan of a gfx card (Radeon 9800 if I remember correctly). It just suddenly started making this horrible screeching noise. Like, I shut the thing down in the evening, and when I start it up again next day it just screams at me with all its heart. But I was sort of lucky with that one as well, if it had gone bad about a month later my warranty would have been just out. I just got a replacement card which is now stashed away in an antistatic bag (I never throw these away) somewhere. This all reminds me that I should throw some old hardware away. Don't really need those AGP slotted cards anymore at all for example. Have to make space for new junk.
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