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4 days ago my 60 Gig Hard Drive collapsed, 2 years and one month since I bought it - Seagate Brand.

Just spent an anxious weekend wondering how much of my Flight Sim would be recoverable, if any.   I had made a back-up of my aircraft/gauges a long time ago and that was about it.     The thought of all the add-ons
that could be history wasn't much fun - blue sky, water textures, Garrish Grey's trees plus about 200 MB's of Airports etc etc etc.

The good news was that with the help of a geeky mate,
a new HD was installed and we managed to clone everything back into it.     Nice to see that HD's have dropped in price, the new 60 Gig one cost me $220 New Zealand, or about $120 US or about 75 pound UK.

This crash came from no-where with no warnings.   Tomorrow I'll be doing a decent Back-up.

Hi Bazza, haven't seen you around for a while. Bad luck on the HD trouble. I back-up everything I've added onto CD as I go along, had a serious problem or 3 a while back, and had to re-install everything. Its a pain.

Good luck
Ozzy

As an "old" computer guy..

Sorry to hear about the HD!  That is terrible.  It just reminds us all how one day our machines could take a dump and leave us with our jaws on the floor....

When I buy products for FS2002, I back them and their coresponding registration codes up straight away!  All other freeware downloads I will back up once I get enough to fill a disk or just to get them off of my harddrive.  I have an entire binder full of cds that date back to FS2000.  I suppose some of them I could get rid of since I will probably never use them again.  

"Side note": On top of backing up, doing a gauge clean is also a great way to free up space on your harddrive.  I finally found a gauge cleaner that works with FS2002 and XP.