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If you unplug all drives except the one that you are installing an OS on, do you plug it in the SATA port that you will keep it on? For example, say you have Win7 on drive 0 and want to install another OS on drive 1 (D:). Do you leave it on the second SATA port and leave the fist port (where your disk 0 C: was) empty? Just curious..

Ok, I just booted from the Windows DVD and this time it did not automatically display a boot info error message. All the other times as soon as I got into the Repair screen and it finished scanning my system it would display a message saying my boot information was wrong or something. Last time it said it was going to fix it to boot from drive E: as I said, and I clicked No to skip that. This time it didn't show that message, it just scanned my system and then displayed the two repair option radio buttons (Repair tools, or Restore from Image I think). So, I went into the Repair tools and used the Command Prompt. And you were correct Roger. I did a Dir on E: and it showed the files that are on my C: drive in Windows. When I boot from the DVD it must just assume drive 0 is C, 1 is D, and 2 is E. And it was seeing my OS on E (2). It has been booting up as fast as ever and it is fixed from my point of view. I am guessing that running that Startup Repair option fixed something that the other process was also looking at to decide something was wrong with my boot information. In any case I will make a note to plug these drives in the correct SATA ports the next time I have to reinstall from scratch.

When I worked at one of my first jobs at an Insurance agency, I worked on a project called Disaster Recovery. Each system had to have a recovery plan. Software and data was backed up daily and stored off site with a company that had underground vaults. I think they were in the desert somewhere in a cave. Really. So, 3 copies, or whatever, it's all how badly you want to cover your ass. To be really safe I would say store it on separate planets when that become available.

I liked that Google for Animals. I just started volunteering for the SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) last week. It was almost a 4 hour orientation! So, I sent that to the girl in charge of it all. I think she'll like that..

That is weird then, because I don't have it... It is weird that this all happened just last night when I noticed a MS OS Patch as I was rebooting to get ready to fly. How would a patch do that? And I did resize my partitions last weekend and have had no problems. That patch put a weird message on the OS Loading screen about updating registry entry 37086 or something... It just flashed and then I got the login screen, and logged in and then it hung with a black screen.. I did have EasyBCD do it's Recreate and Reset on the Diagnostics Center page. It said it fixed some stuff. I rebooted and got a bad boot message error. So, I booted from the Win7 DVD and did a Repair. This time I took note of what the repair screen said. It was going to change my system to boot from device E:. E: is NOT my boot device. It is disk 1 on my system. C: is 3. So, I said NO, and Looked at some other repair options that I had not seen before. There were several tools for repair and I did one that said something about fixing Startup. It said it fixed something, and I rebooted. This time, it booted much faster, but not as good as normal, but almost.. It maybe took 30 seconds longer than normal. I am going to see how this keeps booting up. It might get faster as it figures out what is going on. Maybe I'll see what the Win7 DVD repair option says later if I still have problems... Thanks for your help..

As for the System Reserved partition, I found this: I am not sure, but I thought I had Windows setup the partitions when I did the install. Also, I do see: Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 when I look at the System Information app.

I just looked at this and it is much better than what we had before. You used to have to just read the text yourself while only watching. If you have two monitors you can watch, and pause the training and try things out and look around. That is much better IMO. But not the best I have seen. I remember a sim back in the late 80s or early 90s that had R. Lee Ermey speaking to you as he told you what to do step by step in the game. That was great. Sounded something like this. But not so harsh... Edit: Although it is nice to have these videos to watch on a second monitor, I was very disappointed at the voice audio quality. All they did was use fraps to capture in game audio I believe.

Easy BCD says that I only have 1 entry. I was poking around and looking at System Restore (because it had been turned off somehow, maybe by Safe Mode?) and here you see it says I have that other C drive that is not found/missing... Here are the details from EasyBCD. I have been trying to check my C drive to match it up with one of these ID numbers, but have not been able to. I've been using different tools (Acronis Disk Director Suite; Windows Disk Management; Drive Properties window; Device Mgr; System Information; ect..).

Thanks Rog, I do have a backup image if I screw things up, so I'll take a look at this. When I noticed that previous version of my C drive a little while ago, I wondered if System Restore settings saw that also and it was the one it marked as missing. But they are probably two different things.

When I first built my pc, I didn't pay attention to which disk was plugged into which slot. I didn't think it really mattered if it was disk 0, 1, 2, or 3. Last weekend I had to restore my rig from a backup image. I had installed a new 1tb drive since that backup, so after I booted up I changed my C: and D: drives that 'were' one drive with two partitions, back into just one big C: partition. Basically I removed the D: partition and then resized the C: partition to use up all the now unused space using Acronis Disk Director. Then I reassigned the E: drive the letter D: and the new terrabyte drive from F: to E:. So, now I have C, D, and E. Last night, I rebooted my computer, and noticed before I rebooted that Windows had an update to install on reboot. Ok, not big deal. But when it booted up it installed something and displayed some message about updating the registry entry 32,043 or something, but it looked like it was just updating one thing because that just took 5 seconds and then it asked me to Logon. I did, and it said Windows Loading or whatever it says and then black screen and nothing for about 4 minutes before I forced a reboot. Same thing happened. So, I went into Safe Mode and it seemed ok, so I rebooted normally and same problem, black screen. So, I wanted to restore to before the 'patch' BG (Bill Gates) put on my computer to 'fix' it. But in Safe Mode System Restore does not work. It said I have to enable some service and to click the link for Help. I did click and the help had a link to click to open System in Control Panel. Again, I did click and nothing happened. I clicked again and again.. nothing... Anyhow, long story short.... I could not even open the Control panel and Safe Mode was locked up. So, I rebooted and tried again, and again. Finally, booted from the Win7 DVD and did a repair. It said some Startup information was wrong and the details showed something about booting was going to be fixed. So, I said ok... I booted normally again and had the same black screen after login. So, I decided to just watch tv and wait... After about 7-8 minutes it loaded. While in Safe Mode I did notice that Disk Management said my disks C, D, and E were Disks 0, 1, and 2. But that is not how my system was setup. Now that I am booted normally, it is correct AFAIK, it is C, D, and E is Disk 2, 0, and 1. Like this: And in System Protection (System Restore settings) it says I have two C: drives and one is missing! I did a full C backup image last night to save my ass if I can. Acronis True Image 10 took about 5 minutes to load because it was 'processing' on start. I think it was trying to figure out my disk drive configuration. This morning I did a backup image verification to be sure it was a good backup. Then I loaded Acronis Disk Director and it also took about 5 minutes to load to figure out my disk config. Then I rebooted about 30 minutes ago and it took about 5 minutes after I logged in to get to the desktop. Does Windows care how you setup your disks? I was thinking of plugging C: into the Disk 0 slot, and D: into 1 and E into 2, but don't want to screw anything up worse. Edit: Also, I just noticed that if I look at the properties of the C drive and click on the Previous versions tab it says I have 1 previous version of C: from yesterday at 10:39pm. That was about the time I did the repair from the Windows 7 DVD.

If it is anything like Blackshark it is hard to figure out by yourself. In BS you have the game command names/axis on the left side, and each column is a controller. At the top you can see the name of the Controller I believe. You go down and assign the command to the controller button/axis in the grid cell. In BS I had to assign my TrackIR the same way, but it was off the screen to the right and I could not see it. There were some scrollbars at the bottom of the grid to slide it to the left so I could see the TrackIR (somebody finally told me). After I had all my controls assigned and tested I went back in one day and clicked Save and saved them.... Big Mistake! After my system crashed a few weeks later and I had to reinstall I tried to load that saved controller file but it only saves the current controller that you have selected by clicking a cell in the grid. So, I was screwed and had to start all over. That was a stupid design. So, I had to set everything up again, but this time saved a controller file for every frigg'in controller and backed them all up. Stupid, but that is how BS works. I will get it soon...

Roger, those flybys are awesome. But I am surprised none had a sonic boom. They were going Mach 1+ weren't they? Hm..

And the G19 keyboards as well..

"Now yer gonna die wearing that stupid little hat.." - Great Scene!

@Rattler, So, you got the new FC 2.0? Or, the old one?

I know how to build missions very well in the old FC, but in Blackshark and FC 2.0 the mission builder is pretty hard to use. You would think that I know almost every detail in the older mission builder that I could figure out the new one quickly, but I have not been able to. It does have some nice features, one of which is called triggers. You can script events to occur based on certain other things happening for a more dynamic gameplay. Also, you can add mission messages and radio messages to the scripting. But this is very complicated and time consuming. I guess the reason that I bring this up is that I have been very disappointed in the quality of missions that came with Blackshark and also users. Most of them were impossible to sucessfully play and very unrealistic. And also not much fun when you are just dying over and over. Part of it was mission design. Users had the blackshark flying into hostile areas, where it would never go without some other aircraft making it safe to fly. Also, and within the same reasoning, the blackshark has no defense against enemy lockons really. It has a laser detector, which you can basically use to know when to run away and hide, but it is usually too late because it activates after a lazer is pointing at it. So, I am cautious about how fun the mission will be since all the missions I have made and collected won't be any good. But maybe someone will make a tool to convert missions. But I suppose if you are flying something other than the Ka50, those issues are not so bad. I was just diappointed in flying the Ka50 in missions. The simulator itself is frigg'in awesome!

I have Lockon FC patched up to 1.12a. I have a bunch of multiplayer missions for the A10 that are fun and not 'too' hard. They are challenging and good for noobs and more experienced. Unfortunately they did not make FC 2.0 compatible with the 1.12a missions, so all my missions will be no good if we use FC 2.0, which really sucks. They did add a new mission builder, the same one that is in Blackshark in FC 2.0. And enhanced the game a little, but the big thing is being able to fly with Blackshark. So, if flying with Blackshark is what you are looking forward to, then yes, you should get FC 2.0. If not, then you don't need FC 2.0 and 1.12a will be just about as good. Also, from what I understand, you can have two installations. So, if you want to fly the old Lockon FC 1.12a, you can do that, and have another install for FC 2.0 to fly with BS. I added one more question to the poll at the bottom. Asking if you were just interested in flying Lockon FC 1.12, or also FC 2.0 with Blackshark. Also, check out the Blackshark Trainer that I made for Boomer's Squad, the Warhawks. We can put that on this site if people are interested in it. Just login in as Guest on their site.

Check it out here if your a Lockon fan. I have too much other stuff going on at the moment, but do plan to get this in a few weeks. I may wait for the boxed version in April. This update to the game lets you play Lockon FC against Blackshark. So you can fly all the flyable aircraft that is in LO FC and also the Ka50 BS chopper in an online mission together. Very sweet indeed!

It's done Lothar, and in the eMail. Took me about 3 minutes to change the Name on the engine to Lothar and zip it up. Cheers!

Very nice Sid! And a Modellers forum is a great idea!

I see a 'Mark Forums Read' link now after I click the 'View New Content'. The View New Content never did mark anything read and always showed the most recent posts whether I read them or not. But now the Mark Forums Read link marks them as read, and now the View New Content link does not show the ones I have read. So, that works for me. Thanks!

Nope, I am up and running. I keep my system pretty well imaged, backedup, and data on separate drive from the system.

Arggg...

Before you run the game, run the JSGME.exe and enable your mods. In the middle of that JSGME screen there is a Tasks link/button. It has an option to let you save the currently enabled mods as a profile so you can just load that profile later. That's good if you want to have a set of them you use for this or that. Online with the Dogz, Mission Building, Flying on a specific server that has restrictions, ect...

Jax, are you trying to just load the stock 4.07, 8, or 9? With or Without the UltraPack mods? If you are trying to load with the UP mods this may be a graphics problem that can be fixed in your conf.ini file by turning on S3TC compression in the Render_OpenGL section: [Render_OpenGL] TexCompress=2 Also, Check out the UP Setup Guide.