BVE: Problems & Call For Help

[slick__bve]

hi all been a while since any of you heard from me...this is due to my computer deciding to completly go #### up...My computer has a corrupted hard disk, causing some files on my computer not being able to access certain files, the whole of my bve file and half of my MSTS file and other files were rendered "unreadable". After running a check disk at startup the computer did not start at all..an after 3 days of tech support i was told my computer needed a master reboot to try and correct the problem..which totally wiped my hardrive leaving me with a "out of the box" computer. My hard disk is still corrupted but as long as i cancel the scan at the begginin all seems to run ok...

Im calling upon all of the people i sent any of my material to at whatever stage it was at as i cant remember who i send stuff to, especially to do with the 321. Also does anybody know if after a master boot do your old files get stored in a special file somewhere? i would at least like the cab back as have the sounds on a CD

Note to everyone Backup your files! i learnt the hard way

[ferrovipathe]

RE: Problems & Call For Help

Hi !
I think that your hard disk is not corrupted (by virus..), but is broken down. Your old files may stay on hard disk. The problem is the FAT. If it is erased, it's not simple to save something. Some utilities can read these files, even after reformat hard disk, but no one is freeware, and a lot are very expansive.


In practice, there are two soluces to solve that hard disk's corruption or failure:

- The best one : Don't reinstall anything. Open PC, remove corrupted hard disk, and put a new good one (perhaps someone can lend you one ....). Reinstall windows on it. Shut down PC.
Then, reconnect the bad disk as slave, and reboot.
Copy all files you can from old disk to the new.
Then, reformat old disk, and verify it with scandisk or something like that. If it's good, you may reuse it. If not, you have a broken down hard disk, and you may throw it away.

-Or, find a friend ( a good one) with a PC, and a lot of space disk free.
Put your corrupted hard disk as slave, and copy your data. Reformate and so on...But, in case of virus attack, your friend's PC can be corrupted too (It MUST be a good friend...)

If your problem is a virus problem, you can save a lot of data, but perhaps not if your hard disk is broken.

Anyway, don't forget, if you have a massive virus attack, be very carrefull copying or reusing your data... Scan everything before, or the new disk can corrupted too...

All the best.