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OBIO

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I was doing some file cleaning...getting rid of tons of videos and pics that I have accumulated over the last couple months...videos of planes that I use to compare to sound packs that I am working on, pics that I use when skinning or working on paint templates. Several gigs worth of stuff that I no longer need.

Now D drive, my sim drive, is reading as Unformatted.

This happened to me a couple months back and I lost a TON of work. Luckily, I learned from that experience and have been doing my back ups much more frequently. Just the key stuff...paint templates, planes that I have tweaked to my liking. And I just backed up my paint templates a day or two ago...so I lost very little in that regard. Just a couple templates that I had just started work on and that I can redo in a couple hours.

This is the second time that this has happened to this hard drive. I don't know if it is the HD's fault, or mine. I was using Eraser to overwrite the files...close to 30 gigs worth of them...some of them I had gone to some pretty obscure and shady sites to find....not many videos out there for some of the planes that I am working on sound packs for and when I find one, I tend to throw caution to the wind and download them from sites that I would advise other people to avoid. The price I pay in my drive to make the world a noisier place.

I think I am going to yank this drive out...a 250 gig SATA that I bought and installed last year....and replace it with the brand new 500 gig Western Digital Caviar Black that a site member sent me the last time I had this happen.

As fate would have it....earlier this morning I copied the entire Alphasim Cessna T-50 folder onto C drive in preparation for breaking it up into smaller packages and getting it uploaded. It is all there....all the tweaks, the 9 new skins. And the paint template...the new one...is safe and secure on my external HD...along with all but the couple new paint templates I had just started on. I did lose the superbly detailed template for the radial engine on Joe Binka's Grumman Widgeon....the best nacelle and cowl work I have done....

Will be a few days of reinstalling, downloading, tweaking, fine tuning before I get back to work on skins and sound packs.

OBIO
 
Gmax: Tried that, could not make head way with it, guess modeling is not my thing..I will stick with tweaking, skinning and sound packs.

Payware: There is no way I would be a payware developer....to many headaches from too many directions.

Children: My kids all have 4 legs or fins (dogs, cat, ferrets, fish)....if they become too much of a problem, I simply chop their heads off and eat them.

Wife: She hasn't quite driven me to drinking yet....turned my hair gray way before it was supposed to though.

Tim
 
LOLOLOL....

Well, I hope you get every thing ironed out OBIO with your computer. I do hate it when things go wrong.


Bill
 
Were you using Eraser the first time the drive acted up? That would be my first suspect.
If I were going to sell the PC Eraser would be an option but it seems a very touchy and
powerful tool to just delete files. Your HD and Eraser may not play nice together.
 
The first time this happened, at the beginning of January, I was using Eraser to over write many gigs of plane videos and pics. Same thing this time. I have never had a problem using Eraser except these two times....over writing a large amount of files and the system going into "sleep" mode since it sat so long without any user commands. I think that is where the problem comes in...Eraser is running, system goes nappy nap, I come in to check progress, Eraser has frozen, I do a hard reboot and when the system comes back up the Boot Sector on the HD is scrambled.

OBIO
 
It's probably the sleep mode screwing up eraser and creating problems for you. I despise sleep mode and turn it off except on my laptop when it is running on battery power. I generally don't use screen savers either as they sometimes interfere with programs. Besides, all these things are constantly running in the background and that uses up some RAM and CPU cycles, two things I think are better used by running whatever application I'm trying to use.
 
Tim, what brand of HDD are you using? Try a different brand and don't use Eraser with it, just to see what happens for a a short period of time. If your motherboard supports it, get a SATA2 drive.

I miss do Maxtor's drives but Seagate bought them out. I won't use Western Digital again, as the drive I had of theirs caused nothing but problems. And my next rive will be a 1T HDD. Maybe 2, with the second one for storage. But a new motherboard comes first on the list of what I need.

Just my
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Here's one that happened to me on Wednesday. Left the computer on while I took a nap, came back later and found the screen black except for an error prompt that read,
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Windows root\system32\hal.dll
Please re-install a copy of the above file."
Have no idea what caused it. The computer simply went stupid, wouldn't even let me do the normal routine of starting up with the XP disk in to access the install/repair options. Finally I said screw it and changed primary boot drive to CD, got a blue-screen menu which gave me options of re-install XP or go to Recovery Console which is all DOS command. I chose re-install but apparently XP did its own diagnostics and defaulted to repair instead. Windows then loaded up and everything was back to normal. Have to say I was impressed with XP's ability to fix itself when this type of weirdness occurs.
 
TARPSBird said:
I chose re-install but apparently XP did its own diagnostics and defaulted to repair instead. Windows then loaded up and everything was back to normal. Have to say I was impressed with XP's ability to fix itself when this type of weirdness occurs.
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Makes ya want to stay with XP just for that reason alone doesn't it Tarps? I wonder if Vista or 7 is that smart. ;) Maybe that will come in the next builds.... Windows 8 or 9. LOL
 
TARPSBird said:
Here's one that happened to me on Wednesday. Left the computer on while I took a nap, came back later and found the screen black except for an error prompt that read,
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Windows root\system32\hal.dll
Please re-install a copy of the above file."
Have no idea what caused it. The computer simply went stupid, wouldn't even let me do the normal routine of starting up with the XP disk in to access the install/repair options. Finally I said screw it and changed primary boot drive to CD, got a blue-screen menu which gave me options of re-install XP or go to Recovery Console which is all DOS command. I chose re-install but apparently XP did its own diagnostics and defaulted to repair instead. Windows then loaded up and everything was back to normal. Have to say I was impressed with XP's ability to fix itself when this type of weirdness occurs.
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Backup all your stuff, reformat your drive and reinstall XP. It's been my experience that the self fixes don't last long
 
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