Hi All,

 

At the start of the holidays, and after a crash, I installed a new WD Caviar Black 1TB drive for FSX and its addons. The computer wouldn't recognise it, and it had to be RMA'd, Since it was holidays, and being impatient to get on, I installed a Seagate Barracuda 1TB, which I had forgotten from a previous system.

 

As of now I have FSX on the Barracuda, and a replacement new Caviar Black available in the system, and that makes me nervous.

 

Do you think it advisable to leave FSX as it is, or would it be of advantage to have FSX on the new Caviar Black?

 

If a change is good, is there a simple way to go about it without another re-install?

 

Thanks, Jim H.

 

P.S. If you read this, Paul, congrats on your well deserved new Status!

Why would it make you nervous? I've got 4 different brands of drives in my computer.

You can copy the entire Barracuda drive to the WD, shut down the computer and plug the WD where the Barracuda was.

 

The system does not care what manufacturer made the drive.

 

All this assumes that the bootable system is on another drive.

Thanks, Jim! - and personally, the Cavair Black is my preference: just do as Bert suggests and it will work just fine!

 

All the Best,

 

peej

Thanks, Guys. I'm just nervous about all my FSX stuff on an older drive. I can manage to swap the drives over as Bert suggests.

 

I've got a much much bigger problem now. I'm typing this on my second computer. I was on my main system, on the net, in the process of reinstalling a Flight1 aircraft, when a new window appeared without warning. Multiple windows warned me of trojans and viruses all over the place. I couldn't get into Internet Explorer, nor Malwarebytes, not Ccleaner, and not Task Manager to try to get rid of it.

I decided to shut down, and do an Acronis restore of my C:\. Acronis has saved me before, a few times, but this time,after two tries, I have a Boot Manager screen, telling me to Repair your Computer from the Windows disc. I've tried that without success.

The main message reads:

File: \Boot\BCD

Status: 0xc000014c

Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

 

Have I really screwed up, and need to reinstall from scratch? I use Microsoft Security Essentials for protection. I used to use Eset Security Suite.

 

I'd be really grateful for any help, for as you can gather, I'm no computer guru!

 

Best, jim

Hi Jim; sorry to hear about this. No - don't install from scratch, till everyone here has had a chance to help.

Did you look at this?:-

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Hi Paul,

 

Thanks for the suggestion. A night and half a day later I got back to the computer. Yesterday Acronis seemed to be able to restore my C drive, and the MBR, but wasn't successful. I wasted time banging my head against the same brick wall. When I woke this morning I had a new idea - extremely basic for you guys but almost a brainwave for someone like me!

 

I put in my Win7 disc, formatted the C drive, installed Windows, put in my Acronis disc, recovered a backup of 30/12/12, and Bingo I'm back in business! :-)

 

I've never had an experience like that before. I've tried to think back, and remember doing a Google search for the Eaglesoft Citation CJ1X, which I own but have lost the install file. A Google list came up and I carelessly clicked the wrong entry, and found myself momentarly in one of those pirate sites. I closed it down, found Eaglesoft, and thought no more about it. I'm assuming that must have been the source of my attack, for I've only been in familiar web sites over the last few days or longer.

 

Now to swap over my two hard drives as Bert suggested.

 

Regards, jim

Excellent! Another case closed!

 

:lol:

 

All the Best, Jim.