> Hey sorry I meant to reply to this earlier and forgot to. House calls are actually > extremely rare in dumping and I haven't gotten any interest here for one. With a PC > based game we would need basically 3 things: hard drive dump, bios dump(s) and > hardware information. So you could either pull the whole computer and ship and loan > that out or follow instructions on doing it yourself. As for house calls in dumping > I'd say less than .1% of the dumps in mame are from them. With a computer from recent > years it's feasible to say the motherboard bios could be gotten from an external > source/download/program and all you would need to do is buy a cheap adapter to read > out the hard drive to another PC and otherwise would probably only need to take a > bunch of pics of the inside of the computer and maybe an alt boot so we'd know the > CPU, RAM, motherboard, videocard and whatnot. Again, house calls are extremely rare > so some basic work from yourself or else pulling the computer and shipping it out.
Okay. Thanks for the info. When you get a chance, if you could please point me to instructions so I can try to do what is needed to read and copy the hard drive. Thanks again!
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