G'day,

 

I've just completed an FSX drive migration from my small SSD to a larger HDD. I followed a guide on how to move all the files across and it seems to have worked.

I did not have my Acceleration expansion pack installed, and I installed it after I've moved to my new HDD.

 

Now if I adjust anything in the scenery folder, it does the usual "Building database" dialog, however this time it always stops at 7%, pauses briefly, then a windows dialog appears saying: "failed to read from file". Then FSX CTD's.

 

I've tried getting FSX to rebuild the Scenery.CFG which it does, but it still stops at 7%. However, if I go to my FSX.CFG and remove everything from the [Trusted] section, it works and I just have to re-approve every addon while it's starting. But again, if I change anything in terms of scenery and it has to rebuild, it will fail.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I know it's not a good practise moving the FSX folder across drives but a reinstall would take weeks and many gigabytes.

 

Cheers.

 

EDIT: In order to get FSX working, I need to remove the link that is where the old FSX was located is and run FSX Deluxe off the SSD. This rebuilds everything and allows the HDD FSX Accel install to run again. Then after that, I remove everything out of the [Trusted] section and FSX runs happy again until I update scenery.

Just an update:
With further debugging, after I select an aircraft GSX throws up an "stopped working" error message. In the event viewer it says:

Windows cannot access the file D:\FSX\Scenery\0201\scenery\APX21140.bgl for one of the following reasons: there is a problem with the network connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers installed on this computer; or the disk is missing. Windows closed the program Couatl™ Scripting Engine for FSX/ESP because of this error.

Program: Couatl™ Scripting Engine for FSX/ESP
File: D:\FSX\Scenery\0201\scenery\APX21140.bgl

The error value is listed in the Additional Data section.
User Action
1. Open the file again. This situation might be a temporary problem that corrects itself when the program runs again.
2. If the file still cannot be accessed and
	- It is on the network, your network administrator should verify that there is not a problem with the network and that the server can be contacted.
	- It is on a removable disk, for example, a floppy disk or CD-ROM, verify that the disk is fully inserted into the computer.
3. Check and repair the file system by running CHKDSK. To run CHKDSK, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the command prompt, type CHKDSK /F, and then press ENTER.
4. If the problem persists, restore the file from a backup copy.
5. Determine whether other files on the same disk can be opened. If not, the disk might be damaged. If it is a hard disk, contact your administrator or computer hardware vendor for further assistance.

Additional Data
Error value: C000009C
Disk type: 3

Any ideas?

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So, did you follow the User Action recommendations to see if that would fix the problem?

 

I would download and run SceneryConfigEditor - http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/ as this utility looks for errors when opening up your scenery.cfg.

 

From the AVSIM CTD Guide - Delete/Rebuild your Facilities/Scenery Indexes and Shader Folders – Delete your Facilities/Scenery Indexes located in Program Data/Microsoft/FSX.  Delete the Facilities and Scenery folders.  Delete the Shader folders located in AppData/ (your user name)/Local/Microsoft/FSX/Shader10 and Shader folders. When you restart FSX, these folders will be rebuilt.

 

When GSX runs, it checks the scenery indexes and rebuilds them if a new scenery has been added.

 

Download and run the latest Addon Manager from FSDT.  It will make sure everything is up to date.

 

Best regards,

Hi Jim,

Thanks for getting back to me.

 

I've tried what you suggested and I still get the same error. It seems like the GSX issue is related to the FSX bootup as in the Event Viewer it has an issue loading the scenery file. I've attached a screenshot of what it looks like.

 

I have also tried setting the scenery file itself to "Everyone" with full permissions.

 

 

Thanks.

Do you have that file reference in your post above - File: D:\FSX\Scenery\0201\scenery\APX21140.bgl ?  That's a default FSX scenery.  Perhaps the file got corrupted somehow and fsx cannot read it.  If it is just GSX, try uninstalling, running FSX at least one time (to make sure that is the problem), then reinstall GSX.  GSX usually does not generate a new scenery cache until fsx is fully loaded.  What is the new scenery you put in the Scenery Library or, what new scenery did you just install?  Sometimes the registry gets corrupted so you should run a registry cleaner such as CCleaner.

 

Best regards,

Hi Jim,

 

Just copied my old Scenery file to the new one and it seems to have worked!

Thank you very much for your assistance

hi all:

i´ve found a lot of issues with the scenary indexes. If the file comented has the same length in bytes, probably is copied correctly. clean the scenery indexes and reload FSX.

If your scenery.cfg dont contain errors, readed with scenery config editor, this solution works for me always.

Cheers