Hi all, I'm hoping I might be able to call upon all your expertise, because you know your stuff. I have a real Aliens Extermination arcade cabinet from Global VR and unfortunately the PC inside the cabinet took a power surge and has damaged the motherboard and killed the hard drive :(
By some miracle I had a spare PC kicking around which pretty much matches the system spec of the old PC besides having a slightly faster processor and more ram but other than that like for like.
I have both the service disks that came with the cabinet, the OS recovery disc and then the game install disc.
The problem I am having is you pop in the OS recovery disc which sets up the hard drive and copies a ghost image (via Norton ghost) which has Windows XPE and some other bits with it. What happens is you pop in the disc and it starts up saying about loading CD-ROM drivers, it then says it can't find the CD drive or is not connected? Which is very weird considering its read the information of the disc in the first place. I'm aware that you need to load the drivers for the CD-ROM in DOS first before anything else but kinda stuck on how to find the right driver for the CD-ROM drive.
I have managed to bypass this using freedos (via a USB stick) and after a few commands to get the hard drive ready I was able to fire up Norton Ghost ans got it to start copying the image to the hard drive but in a short time I get a decompression error and it bails out.
I'm kinda stumped to be honest I could get Win XPE on the machine by myself but the moment you use the game install disc it has a stupid version check built into it so it won't install unless you have the specific version it wants i.e the one on the OS restore disc :(
Any ideas or info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you ;)