I can relate to that. However, I have NO wallet left to drain :cry:

The video card did not come in today. So hopefully it will arrive tomorrow and hopefully, those Toronto experts are able to retrieve everything off that hard drive as I need everything on it really bad.

Rob

I hope the card will solve the problem and that not another component is broken e.g. the mainboard. Also scan for adware and malware. Free scanners available for that purpose. I had freezing problems which I considered hardware related (old disk) but they disappeared after the malware had been destroyed.

I use SpyBot and SpywareBlaster. I was told by a friend that he ws told to use BitDefender but my technician he knew nothing about that one, but used only SpyBot. I just ran it and there was nothing there and my McAfee scan today found nothing. So, I guess I'm okay :rock:

Rob

What browseing habits you have will determine what software you need.

I use nothing but AVG freeware version, Microsofts Malware thingy,
and commend sense.
After 30 + years on the Net?
Works for me.

Hooray!
 

I just heard from the company in Toronto and was informed that they can retrieve 15,000+ files from that hard drive that crashed because of the bad sector.

They sent me a list of all the files they can retrieve and everything I needed BADLY can be retrieved :D .

So needless to say I am very, very happy. But it will take another two weeks before I will receive a new hard drive with all those files on it so I can hook it into my computer and copy the files I want from it. :rock:

I was sure sweating there for a while.

Rob

After this huge discussion, I accidently deleted all my saves for my patrol that made it to early 1943 with over 500K tons in my IXB.

:doh:

http://darksun.lunarpages.com/images/loose%20nut.png

Very pleased to hear this Rob :up:

Glad to hear that data has been recovered and lets hope the damage is small

HunterICX

Im surprised that only 1 bad sector caused the fatal failure of the complete HD. The "sophisticated" :nope: MS filesystem suppose to prevent that.

i always have a second computer with the same socket of my main PC with low end components so that if there's a problem i can't locate it myself

So am I. It must have been in the boot system.

I got the USB storage disk the other day (total cost $1,400) and copied everything onto my hard drive. I was even able to obtain my SH3. That's great, because I had no clue as to what mods I put into it. So I just copied it to Program Files and I copied my saved career. I tested it out and it started right where my IXB was when the hard drive crashed, so needless to say, I am trying to get the last part of my mission finished. I was heading to the Port of Spain (Equador) and ran into a mess of warships and me with only 3 torpedoes. I sunk one and got the heck out of there. :D

Rob

Well congratulations. I'm glad it worked out.

Great news Rob :rock:

It would appear I missed you over on the GWX TS server the other day :-?