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Post by bobdawkins on Jan 20, 2008 11:49:57 GMT
Major disaster in FS9, (Drive E) is the one I use for Flight sim (40 GB size,) went to go and do a couple of flights, but wouldn't start up,noticed that my hard disk (E) was titled FS9 which previously it recognized, had changed to Local Disk (E:) took some time to let me know, and then a box popped up with the words "The Disk in Drive E is not formatted, Do you want to format now" does this mean that FS9 does not exist any more, ie Local Disk E has had it and I have to start all over again or is it a new hard drive replacement, 
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Post by Tony Madge - HJG on Jan 20, 2008 16:17:08 GMT
Bob check you have no other external drives fitted and then right click on the E drive and look at properties DO NOT FORMAT until you are sure your FS9 is not on this drive. If you go to my copmputer you should see your drives and hopefully your FS9 drive listed maybe under another drive letter .. odd things happen!
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Post by bobdawkins on Jan 20, 2008 19:10:39 GMT
This is the Disk etc, I have on my Computer  Checked all Drives Ect even Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management then shows C and E this was what Ewas showing  just spent the last 3 hours trying to find FS9, But doesn't seem to exist anywhere on my Computer |
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Post by benh on Jan 20, 2008 19:30:57 GMT
Bloody hell Bob.........I hope you have everything backed up mate.........
Ben
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Post by Dan K. Hansen on Jan 20, 2008 21:01:52 GMT
I'm sorry to say it Bob but that one is a "gonner".... :-(
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Post by Tarasdad on Jan 20, 2008 21:18:16 GMT
BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE, take the hard drive out of your box and put it in the freezer for a few hours. After that, replace it in your system and try to access it again. MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT ALL POWER IS DISCONNECTED FROM YOUR COMPUTER AND THAT YOU ARE PROPERLY GROUNDED WHILE HANDLING THE HARD DRIVE! (Sorry for the caps, but this is VITALLY important while removing/installing hardware.)
There is still a good chance that the drive is recoverable. Do a Google search for "hard drive recovery" and you will find many good links with diagnostic advice and tools.
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Post by Tony Madge - HJG on Jan 21, 2008 11:56:57 GMT
good advice, I was suggesting that you removed it as well... let us know how it goes Bob..
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Post by bobdawkins on Jan 21, 2008 23:18:35 GMT
well chaps, after following fridge suggestion, and others, powered up, it still did not bring a single thing up to try and save, every single item has gone, the curious thing is wouldn't allow me to do a complete format said something about blocks, ?!!! so reinstalled FS9 after doing a quick format, went onto FS9 and in the part where you select aircraft airport weather and time it still showed a couple of airport's that was an addon, but they are not showing in the addon folder, All aircraft are gone all 300+, but other scenery addons (Flight Environment,Ground Environment) still showing when you run FS9 But if I go into-- My Computer/Local Disc (C:)/Documents and Settings/BOB/Application Data/Microsoft/FS9/Scenery cfg and it shows for instance all my addons in here ie (just a small selection, this is why they are still showing in FS9 I presume)
[Area.070]
Title=DIEGO GARCIA
Active=FALSE
Layer=58
Local=Addon Scenery\DIEGO GARCIA
Remote=
Required=FALSE
[Area.071]
Title=CitationX Animations
Local=Addon Scenery\CitationX_Anims
Active=TRUE
Layer=60
Required=FALSE
Remote=
[Area.072]
Title=CitationX Animations
Local=Addon Scenery\CitationX_Anims
Active=TRUE
Layer=7
Required=FALSE
Remote=
[Area.073]
Title=Wake Island (PWAK)
Local=Addon Scenery\Wake Island (PWAK)
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=72
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Post by Tony Madge - HJG on Jan 22, 2008 9:54:52 GMT
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Post by bobdawkins on Jan 22, 2008 14:11:37 GMT
still can't find info even though I've spent the last hour looking through the site
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Post by Tony Madge - HJG on Jan 22, 2008 15:30:43 GMT
ok the program they are talking about is this www.majorgeeks.com/download4129.htmlalso in google type this "hard drive now shows raw" and the forum is the 2nd one down in the google list |
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