Corrupted saves

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by aanker

Because I don't want my personal data to be anywhere near the possibility of a hackable 'Cloud', plus I don't like the user interface of Win 8 or Win 10, I bought a backup Win 7 install disk to install Win 7 on any future computer I may build or buy. When I do buy a new computer (if anything happens) I will replace the HD, install Win 7 on it, the Win 7 drivers, and be on my way.

Zip, zap, voilà : )

It isn't quite that simple. First you have to crowbar Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 to let you boot from a normal disk without UEFI. That means you have to get into the system BIOS, carefully guarded by the new Windows malware. You must turn UEFI off in the advanced BIOS settings. That way you can boot Windows 7.

At that point you can just do a transplant of hard drives from your old computer to the new one and boot the system. Bam! You're in business with an asterisk.

The asterisk is that you'll have to reactivate Windows. Do it by phone call--it's an automated process and it works every time.

So it's more like zip, zap, fiddle, fiddle but so far (and I look for that to change as Microsoft's fangs continue to grow) you can make a computer made for Windows 8 or above boot Windows 7.

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

It isn't quite that simple. First yuo ehav ot rcrowab Iswnwdo 8, 8.1 or 10 tenw Sidwnow oobt Owdiwns ......... .............. ..... ... .......... ......... ....... ...... above boot Windows 7.

If I can't do it myself, when the time comes that I do need to do it, those issues will have been addressed and solutions found.

Thank you

[G7eT2]

Hey vmialpha454,

Sometimes you can make a troublesome save work by loading a single mission or earlier campaign save first, and then loading the reluctant save from there.

It may require more than one try.