Lordmonkus Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 3 hours ago, PowerCooker said: well as i said before, my current 2tb hdd with launchbox i got from someone else and everything was already pre-installed. You should contact who you got the hard drive from for support. Also this is the exact reason no one should ever buy or get a pre done setup from anyone, you have no idea how any of it works and when it breaks you spend far more hours trying to figure it out than you would have if you had done it yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 its worked fine for over two years without any issues. I do have a rough idea what I'm doing as i am 35 and have messed with emulators before. It's just mame changed how it works so i wanted to know if it's roms are in it's own folder in the mame emulator folder as standard. also i tried contacting him a few weeks ago over a 4tb hdd he was selling. He was more interested in selling the last drive he had than actually helping anyone. i know if i sold a pre-made drive i would help my customers. That being said I've been a member of eBay for over 15 years and the amount of scum on that web site that gets away with not paying for items or simply lying....yeah...i don't expect a lot from other sellers these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 To be perfectly honest, it's rather insulting that you buy a pre-loaded drive from someone with Launchbox on it and then come looking to us for support. Why should we support other peoples products ? Especially when they are known thieves and sell LB licenses without permission. I will give you one hint / tip with Mame, mame.ini and rompath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 (edited) because helping people is something a good and decent person is meant to do? i dunno about yourself but i was raised with the mind-set of helping others when they ask for it. i have the free version of launchbox (not paid version) so i fail to see the problem. If it wasn't for the person selling the drive i never would have even of heard of launchbox to even begin with. so someone selling that got me interested in all this and now I'm wanting to learn it all for myself. what's your problem with this exactly? I mean I'm asking adults (I'm assuming) for help and advice on what i assume is a friendly forum with people willing to help each other. I'm asking for advice on copying files from one drive to another so it might be a tad easier for myself to get to grips with everything. It's me trying to learn Edited June 23, 2018 by PowerCooker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 We help people here all the time but if you don't see why us having a problem helping troubleshooting (for free) other peoples illegal activities then I don't know what to tell you. Try that with any other product or industry in the world and see how well that goes over. Since you are asking about Mame specifically I will direct you to my Mame Tutorial, it should help you figure out what you need to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 You might find it better to watch a video to give you a better understanding of how it all works... Obviously you won't have all the features on the free version but the way you set it up is the same.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 thanks rince but i need to go through the retroarch/launchbox set up together as when i do it myself i want it to run Saturn and others via retroarch but load up in launchbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 The video includes setting up retroarch, and there are plenty of other videos showing how to set up pretty much every system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 ah right ok, ill have a look on mon/tues when the drive arrives and I've installed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 ok guys i ran into a rather serious problem and wanted to confirm something. The 2tb wd hdd drive came. It was wrapped in bubble wrap and in an anti-static bag. I installed the hdd in my pc, switched on pc, hdd hummed and span like f-ing crazy! My pc wouldn't boot, went into bios, saw 1tb and 2tb, told windows to boot from 1tb, saved and quit. Pc restarted and wouldn't boot into windows, just hanged on the mb start up menu. The 2tb hdd was humming like mental. Turned pc off, removed drive, turned back on, everything loaded normally.....soo....i took 2tb hdd and installed it in my Qdrive (external case) connected up to my tablet, switched case on, hdd hummed like crazy again and didn't show up at all on the desktop. I google searched and it says only PINK bubble wrap is anti-static? Has the seller of the drive accidentally killed it when sending it to me? In the past i have had another 1tb hdd installed in my pc as i used acronis to clone my hdd to a new drive and i didn't have that problem before. I connected it up from the DVD cables (sata and psu) and pc booted up fine and i was able to clone in. This 2tb drive however spins like crazy and won't let my pc even boot into windows. So is the drive actually damaged considering it was covered in bubble wrap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 If you go into disk management do you see the drive there maybe it needs to be formatted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 i can only see the drive if i go into bios but like i mentioned before the drives just spinning like nuts. The drive itself is meant to be new but already have been formatted. Even if it wasn't the drive still shouldn't sound like i put x6 vibrators together (its a bad example i know but that's the only way i can think of explaining it) and its the first drive I've ever had that's done this loud humming noise. the drives meant to have been formatted already but even if it wasn't the drive still shouldn't be acting this way should it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 yeah I only buy new drives in the box so I don't know I've never gotten a drive that has been overly loud I would just return it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 It depends where you have it in your PC, if its just in there with screws it could be vibrating the whole case. Generally HDD's should be on little rubber dampers to minimize vibration. As for it already being formatted that doesnt really matter, you may still need to tell windows to activate and use it in disk management. If it really is vibrating that much and making that much noise though then unfortunately you may of been scammed with a broken drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 1 minute ago, DOS76 said: yeah I only buy new drives in the box so I don't know I've never gotten a drive that has been overly loud I would just return it. Yeah agreed, i would never buy a second hand HDD unless i could personally test it myself first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 I've got rubber trays in the pc i installed it in it. My main drive is in one and is silent. just so i know I'm not being stupid here HOW exactly do i tell windows to activate the drive ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 If you look in disk management and the drive isn't listed then you can't tell it to. To get to disk management in Windows 10 just hit windows+X and pick it from the menu that pops up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 did this, followed a video, did the formatting and labelled drive D but once it said it was done it still wasn't showing up on my computer. All the while the hdd is still humming like nuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoozwah Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 sounds like a bad drive. bummer dude. usually even mechanical drives won't spin really hard like that if they're fine. I'd see about doing an exchange on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerCooker Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 this is what i was thinking but the guy i got the drive from has gone rather quite.... sigh...really could do without this headache. can anyone confirm if wrapping a hdd in bubble wrap screws it up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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