My cocktail MAME cabinet conversion project

[owennewton]

I spent most of the day cleaning dust out of my old desktop that got mothballed due to the click of death in the hard drive. I booted it up and cleaned out the drive and just as I was about to add the one I had planned to use it gave it's final click and not even bios could find it again. so I spent over a half hour finding my xp pro disk, moved drives around, rearranged cables and put my 300gb drive in and went to install the OS. after 7 failed attempts to format it and two tries at quick formatting I gave up on it and went on a quest to find a working hard drive in my assorted piles of junk. I ended up trashing 9 hard drives in the last two days but did find an 80gb one to put in the puter. Now it has a working os on it but I had to give up as I had spent over 6 hours today messing with it just trying to make the machine work.

Back at it tomorrow