Can't install SH3 on SATA RAID0 drive

FoddaUK · 01-19-07, 01:15 PM

Hello all.

I've been sailing U-Boots for a couple of years now, but have been happy just to lurk here and pick up on your tips and tweaks etc.

Just yesterday however I decided to renistall SH3 on my newish setup (flight sim X has been top of the list for the last couple of months).

Anyway I have a 3 HDD system... c: consists of 2 250GB drives in RAID 0 configuration, and d: is a single 250GB that I keep for FSX only.

I installed SH3 on c: (RAID drive) and it installed nicely and started. Then I tried patching it to 1.4b and the patch couldn't rename any files. I tried changing the read-only properties and every file and folder gives a standard "this file may be being used or the the disk might be full" sort of message (disks far from full and no SH3 files in use). So no SH3 files can be manipulated.

I uninstalled and that took 20 mins!

After a reinstall exactly the same thing occurred, including the painfully slow uninstall.

Test time, I installed SH3 (I have v1.0 DVD as I bought it when it was released) on d: (single HDD) and this time the patch worked a treat! As did the uninstall...

So... How can I install SH3 on my RAID 0 HDD setup?

I've installed GTL on c: and that has Starfarce protection, so I don't think it's that...

I'm running an nVidia A8N-E mobo using nVidia drivers. The system had no trouble installing SH3, patches, Grey Wolves 1.1, SH Commander, Mod Enabler etc before I put in the RAID drives.

I hope someone can help as I need to trawl the Atlantic again...

01-19-07, 01:15 PM	#1
FoddaUK Mate Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bristol, England Posts: 52 Downloads: 119 Uploads: 0	Can't install SH3 on SATA RAID0 drive Hello all. I've been sailing U-Boots for a couple of years now, but have been happy just to lurk here and pick up on your tips and tweaks etc. Just yesterday however I decided to renistall SH3 on my newish setup (flight sim X has been top of the list for the last couple of months). Anyway I have a 3 HDD system... c: consists of 2 250GB drives in RAID 0 configuration, and d: is a single 250GB that I keep for FSX only. I installed SH3 on c: (RAID drive) and it installed nicely and started. Then I tried patching it to 1.4b and the patch couldn't rename any files. I tried changing the read-only properties and every file and folder gives a standard "this file may be being used or the the disk might be full" sort of message (disks far from full and no SH3 files in use). So no SH3 files can be manipulated. I uninstalled and that took 20 mins! After a reinstall exactly the same thing occurred, including the painfully slow uninstall. Test time, I installed SH3 (I have v1.0 DVD as I bought it when it was released) on d: (single HDD) and this time the patch worked a treat! As did the uninstall... So... How can I install SH3 on my RAID 0 HDD setup? I've installed GTL on c: and that has Starfarce protection, so I don't think it's that... I'm running an nVidia A8N-E mobo using nVidia drivers. The system had no trouble installing SH3, patches, Grey Wolves 1.1, SH Commander, Mod Enabler etc before I put in the RAID drives. I hope someone can help as I need to trawl the Atlantic again...