PC explosions and you, fun together.

[ozz]

zigma rocked the thread anyway 8)

Best kept secret in tech support:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1

or is this?

[Wulf]

the SAME EXACT THING happened to me and another player I know. I warned him not to uninstall FFXI but he didn't listen <_<

[Septimus]

the SAME EXACT THING happened to me and another player I know. I warned him not to uninstall FFXI but he didn't listen <_<

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/01/06

[DarkMistSkeleton]

Your wrong about reinstalling the OS each time you get a new motherboard... I bought a new motherboard 2 months ago and put it in hooked everything up and the existing copy of Windows XP already on the main hard drive booted up without a problem... Plus I think it may be your hard drive... Same file got "corrupted" when my Laptop hard drive went bad. Anyway good luck!

[Russta]

Whoa! Welcome back DarkMistSkeleton, we all missed you.

[Palin]

Your wrong about reinstalling the OS each time you get a new motherboard... I bought a new motherboard 2 months ago and put it in hooked everything up and the existing copy of Windows XP already on the main hard drive booted up without a problem... Plus I think it may be your hard drive... Same file got "corrupted" when my Laptop hard drive went bad. Anyway good luck!

You probably got the same model as your old motherboard. :wink:

[Zigma]

Your chipset must have been closely the same. The best way to keep your OS from going bad when swapping mobo's is to uninstall the chipset drivers. But even after doing so, there is a 50/50 chance that it will work.

[Kuai]

SEPTIMUS IS USING A WINDOWER? YOUR GONNA GET BANNED

[Septimus]

So anyway, I had to reinstall windows, after trying to fix the boot.ini and hal.dll files. I did a through scan disk and it found a bunch of bad clusters so it seems it was the hard drive after all. (Which is quite annoying for a hard drive that is less than a year old.)

I am going to buy a new hard drive, am I going to have to reinstall all of the programs that I just reinstalled, or would I be able to ghost the current hard drive onto the new one? Would ghosting be dangerous even though I isolated the corrupted clusters already? (Another 4-hour FFXI update would piss me off.)

[Sonomaa]

Your wrong about reinstalling the OS each time you get a new motherboard... I bought a new motherboard 2 months ago and put it in hooked everything up and the existing copy of Windows XP already on the main hard drive booted up without a problem... Plus I think it may be your hard drive... Same file got "corrupted" when my Laptop hard drive went bad. Anyway good luck!

Coflsilk from my ls asked about this once, since he got it to work with his old OS load, I told him to reinstall after he wasnt super happy with his bench results, after reload he got about 50% faster. So yeah... it will "work" but it wont get you where you need to go as fast as you could

[Benadar]

I am going to buy a new hard drive, am I going to have to reinstall all of the programs that I just reinstalled, or would I be able to ghost the current hard drive onto the new one? Would ghosting be dangerous even though I isolated the corrupted clusters already? (Another 4-hour FFXI update would piss me off.)

If you have a new HDD you'll most likely need to install all apps as it's a fresh copy of Windows with a blank registry. Ghosting wouldn't be dangerous, but all the data might not be intact if you have bad blocks/clusters.

[Septimus]

I am going to buy a new hard drive, am I going to have to reinstall all of the programs that I just reinstalled, or would I be able to ghost the current hard drive onto the new one? Would ghosting be dangerous even though I isolated the corrupted clusters already? (Another 4-hour FFXI update would piss me off.)

If you have a new HDD you'll most likely need to install all apps as it's a fresh copy of Windows with a blank registry. Ghosting wouldn't be dangerous, but all the data might not be intact if you have bad blocks/clusters.

Another 4-hour FFXI update...

/cry

(Think it would hurt to ghost the dat files from FFXI after I installed it on the new hard drive?)

[Sonomaa]

(Think it would hurt to ghost the dat files from FFXI after I installed it on the new hard drive?)

nope, I do it all the time
load ffxi, dont patch it, delete the folder, copy your old one over, ffxi loading the first time will freak, just smack it, force it to check, and boom, your done, everything mostly intact