DTM V8 demo Warning Yesterday I installed the DTM v8 demo (2nd DTM demo released) when starting the game the 1st time everything went fine in the menu's, but when starting the game nothing happened I killed the process in XP and retried during the startup-process of the game there is a warning stating = "Loading data , do not turnoff PC" After watching this message for the full 10 minutes (previously it only appeared 5-10 seconds) I tried killing the app, but the PC had frozen, I restarted my system (reset button) Guess what? It hosed my XP installation. The game blocks the SOFTWARE key in the registry, so XP is ****ed up today I tried to install a new version beside my br0ken install (disk1 = br0ken , disk2 = 4gb free space, enough for install) When I come to my PC after a while , I am faced with a BLUE screen. restarting the system only gives me a black screen reloading the setup gives me a corrupt format on my DISK2 (40gb of data is on that one) so I'm royally screwed, I recovered everything from disk1 , and I'm reinstalling XP on clean 40gb of HD space DISK2 however has a bad master boot record fdisk /mbr is quite impossible :( So I'm looking for a utility that I can run from Windows/DOS that can fix the faulty MBR of my 40gb disk2 my advice: Don't install the DTM V8 demo unless you are sure the PC may be hosed! |
Srry to hear that m8 ! :( Thnx for the warning! greetz Tazmaniac |
Sorry to hear that. Blame Windows XP ! Even its Service Pack sucks ! |
I still need to find a way to recover 40gb of data it is on a broken NTFS partition partition magic can't fix it :( anybody know a tool I can use to recover the data ? |
GetDataBack 2.03 did the job I recovered 35gb of data from the damaged NTFS partition on my drive worked pretty quick too, the whole restore only took ~30min :) thnkx for the tips Tazmaniac |
np jmke! :) Next time when I need help, i'll call you !! :p greetz Tazmaniac |
Jmke if you have bad sectors? Try a low level format on the partition . You can prob. can save the disk. now the only problem is that the new bioses don't have the option anymore to do a low level format. I've kept my old yd tx chipset mb with a k6 200mhz proc. just for that purpos. If you need it ? You can borrow it to do a low level format if you want. :) |
The HD itself is a-ok, but Windows XP setup screwed up the Master File Table I was able to recover the data on the disk with "GetDataBack", formated the disk and copied the data back on there whatever you do, never use Dynamic disks in Win2000/XP, it doesn't give any real advantages, and makes recovering data from these partitions a pain in the ***, and sometimes just quite simply impossible :( |
Indeed. I have used dynamic disks twice. And twice after a couple of weeks I lost all data and could not do an import into a new system. So two times 160GB of data down the drain. Never using dynamic disks again ;-) |
what are dynamic discs, how do i disable it? after all these warnings, i just want to feel a tad safer :) |
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