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WHAT THE @#$%^ IS THIS????? ... what file? the CDrom? the FS9 main file??

PLEASE dont tell me I have to reinstall???

I just deleted the FS9.CFG in DOCUMENTS & SETTINGS... Still no go.


any ideas?

Leave it to M$ to say there's a problem but nothing about the cause or solution. Bastards!!!

Have you tried reviewing the Event Log to see what it says?

Start/Run and type in eventvwr

It may reveal what file could not be read.

nothing there about flight sim 9 or X.   BTW, X will fly just fine, but for whatever reason 9 will only come up with that error.


After uninstalling, I tried to open the E:/ to just look at the FS9 Main file, and then my computer said something along the lines of "THIS DRIVE IS NOT FORMATTED, DO YOU WANT TO FORMAT IT NOW?" (YES) (NO)

so, I restarted the computer and Windows started saying there were BAD SECTORS in E:/MICROSOFT GAMES/FLIGHT SIM 9 and that it was rewriting the bad sectors with (NULL)

restart...

Bad Sector in E:/MICROSOFT GAMES/ROBOT ARENA (same)

restart

Bad Sector in E:/MICROSOFT GAMES/Star Trek Armada II (same)



hmmmmmmm, this made me think i have bad sectors on my external drive.  .... So i Booted into SAFE MODE and retrieved all music/pictures/major files that I want to keep and I am about to REFORMAT the external drive..... then do a TOTALLY CLEAN REINSTALL of FS9&X.   

There goes my weekend.  :-/

I'd wait a little bit. Maybe someone else has a clue. 

Well, in trying to re-format the external... it askes what VOLUME LABEL i want to call it. 

ummm ??? File System is FAT32 (which is what I want it to be, not NTFS).. but what the heck is VOLUME LABEL??  External drive? E:/ ?

??


NICK N, where are you!? lol

[quote]Well, in trying to re-format the external... it askes what VOLUME LABEL i want to call it.

File System is FAT32 (which is what I want it to be, not NTFS)

Just curious why you want to use FAT32 instead of NTFS?

cheers,
Joe

original file system is/was FAT32.

yep...hate to say this but the drive is pooched...especially from our earlyer convo....its sad that it got pooched though...

Hi, NTFS makes more efficient use of the hard drive, if you want to use your hard drive over various OS's such as going back to ME, (no I'm not in a museum but I was on PC's as far back as the early 80's) keep it at fat32 as win ME for example can't read NTFS formatted drives.

regards
Steve

lol I can goas far back as win 3.1.1...and DOS :p (i was 4 years old and I had taken appart and put back together and in working order my first PC)...

well, some good news.... I just bought a new Western Digital 320Gig External HDD so now it is back to reloading EVERYTHING once again.

i just hope everything installs correctly/cleanly and doesnt give me any more problems.