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Zakalwe
17 Jul 07, 17:42
Great!

I lost C: partition probably due to a virus. Unfortunatly I had only a VERY old Ghost image of C:, so I had to rebuild the system from a very old stand (pre-DG). As I had the system back up and running, patched etc. I tried to start DG (located on D:) and of course it refused to load. I downloaded the game again and installed it into the same location and to my great pleasure DG started, updated to 1.51 and ran flawlessly. I already saw me writing one email to support begging for reactivating my licence, but it I was lucky, I guess.

Same goes for FS9, it only unpacked the scenery files again, then ran fine (it would have been a nightmare to bring this huge installation back up to date, I have tons of addons.

Il-2 46 was no problem as expected, it doesn`t write anything into registry.

Civ IV was dead though, had to reinstall, lost all savegames too :mad:

SH3 +GWX might work too, but my career is lost, as (like Civ) it saves into "My files" which was located on C: too. This is the downside.

The positive thing: The system is sleek and fast again, all the rubbish accumulated over the past years gone.

And yes, I`ll begin again to collect Ghost images on a regularly basis, no better, faster and easier way to re-instate a system.

Greets

Z.

Daedalus
17 Jul 07, 18:36
Great!

I lost C: partition probably due to a virus. Unfortunatly I had only a VERY old Ghost image of C:, so I had to rebuild the system from a very old stand (pre-DG). As I had the system back up and running, patched etc. I tried to start DG (located on D:) and of course it refused to load. I downloaded the game again and installed it into the same location and to my great pleasure DG started, updated to 1.51 and ran flawlessly. I already saw me writing one email to support begging for reactivating my licence, but it I was lucky, I guess.

Same goes for FS9, it only unpacked the scenery files again, then ran fine (it would have been a nightmare to bring this huge installation back up to date, I have tons of addons.

Il-2 46 was no problem as expected, it doesn`t write anything into registry.

Civ IV was dead though, had to reinstall, lost all savegames too :mad:

SH3 +GWX might work too, but my career is lost, as (like Civ) it saves into "My files" which was located on C: too. This is the downside.

The positive thing: The system is sleek and fast again, all the rubbish accumulated over the past years gone.

And yes, I`ll begin again to collect Ghost images on a regularly basis, no better, faster and easier way to re-instate a system.

Greets

Z.

I am glad to see you are back up and running. And tuned out for speed.

My system crashed the other day and I lost all. My harddrive went down hard . The Backups that I have been keeping are junk, I do not have much faith in backups anymore. After trying about all the backup software that I could try I found that none of it does what it says.
So anyway I am putting all back together again slowly and like your computer it is a lot faster and smoother.