Sorry guys will not be painting for a while lost my hard drive for no reason, never had a hard drive just crap out like this so have to start all over oh man not good was starting the alaskair starliner 75th anniversary, guess thats on the back burner, anyway I will be back as soon as possible but we all no how long it takes to tweak win 7 and re-install all my addons oh man this %^&*&**&^%$ bad, over & out, dam

That is the worst case scenario. I installed everything on a SSD drive to help prevent this. I am wondering if I can copy my entire hard drive to a notebook and if the SSD crashes, I can just use the notebook?

This is why backups are so important... I bought a 3TB external drive the other week for $110... completely worth it if something like this happens to your main drive.

ssd would be the way to go but not prepared have 2 1TB seagates reloaded windows on junk drive to get my stuff back then I will rebuild the other seagate not taking a chance on this one that went bad it just reloaded windows but no way I will use it, I will use it for storage I hope, no idea what went wrong didnt do anyting out of the ordinary so I cant trust it was just an operating system issue oh well always something.

That bites big time Richard. Hope you get up and running again soon.

Sorry about that! My relative had the same issue, luckily he had it backed up to a external hard drive, like I do.Get something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002QEBMCI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323399966&sr=8-11TB is MORE than enough for anyone.

Thanks Guys, I have backup drive Ryan but that does not negate the fact that I have to reinstall everything again, had everything running perfect blam junk this has never happened to me before usually its something I did lol but this time I was just repainting shut it down for the night next morning it would not go into windows just a black screen after the enitial starting windows screen, not bios not overclock even weirder is the bios is not seeing the hard drive but it's there otherwise I would not get options to restore the system and the repair menus by the way therestore in win 7 su$#@$s piece of crap, never works, anyway copying my files over to external now thank god I have my guitar rig to go online, just bought megascenery earth all of california takes 2 days to download and as much to install it every file has to be installed 1 by 1 if I lost that I would have to find a new hobby lol 20 years never not been able to get the drive back oh well thats life in the big city.Have a 1tb external seagate also, with all my payware and downloads on it, good thing.

This is why backups are so important... I bought a 3TB external drive the other week for $110... completely worth it if something like this happens to your main drive.

Where did you get a 3TB hard so cheap. With the flood in Thailand the $ of HDD have climb like a home sick angel. A 1 TB HDD is over $150.00+

That is Bad News for Sure, Hopefully it will go Smoothly. I Guess in the Meantime we will have to fly around in Old Dirty Airplanes :-)Looking Forward to Seeing you up and Running REAL Soon !!

Aw that sucks Rich! hope you get it all fixed without too much headache. Sorry, I should explain the use of the emoticon. That is how I look when s#$%& goes south with my PC. I bite my lip and drum my fingers on the coffee table until I am confident I won't toss the thing out the window!! LOL.

Thanks guys really appreciate it, looks like I know what I will be doing this weekend, was looking forward to that starliner project, keep you posted guys.

Take your time, think it through, do it right. You'll be back better than ever. Good luck, Rich.

Hi Dennis thanks buddy hope all is well

Bummer... I've lost two big drives in about the last two years..The first was a brand new 1 TB.. Get this.. I knocked my TV remote controloff the top of my puter, and it fell down along the side into the box andhit the hard drive while it was running. Instant head crash.. :(The second one was another 1 TB that just decided to flake out..That was one month after the NGX came out, and I lost my whole sim onthat one. Had to reinstall both the sim and the NGX.I also lost a lot of movies on both of those drives, but most I've managed toreplace since then. I record a lot of movies.. I have hundreds of them onmy drives. I don't use DVD's any more, except for portable with the laptop.These newer large drives seem easy to kill. The tolerances are ultra tight,and it doesn't take much to whack one out.Actually, on the second drive, the controller flaked.out I think.That's kind what it sounds like on yours if it's not being seen in the BIOS.You might re-seat all the cables, etc before you totally condemn it to thetrash pile. A loose cable connection could cause that.Hard drive prices have been through the roof lately.. I hope they gettheir factories back going. They were starting to get really cheap beforethe floods. :/ I was thinking about another big one for movie backup,but I'm gonna wait now that the prices have shot up.The last crash, I replaced the 1 TB with a 2 TB..

rich man hang in their, thats the nightmare I hve allways had about fsx. Life is imore important and believe I realize how important this is to you. But takeit easy and when you come back and everything is fixed al the damm addons are llinstalled you wil be back in no time. keep in touch and throw a pm. as far as some concern things hapen in life that we just cannot control you know about my story biut those a re the breaks, I say no more. if you want to give me a call speak to you by cell. For now just hangin therespecial regards, Ronny