Hi,

On behalf of a non internet friend.....

My friend has just had his PC returned from having a new hard drive fitted
(bigger). The shop simply transferred "everything" that was on his old drive
to the newer one.

And now he is experiencing various probs...

1. On boot up, his PC (he is using Windows XP), starts giving "file
inconsistency" warnings, and starts doing a "CheckDisk" program, which
amongst other things warns him about having "orphaned files" and attempts to
out them all right. This procedure takes for ever, and for the time being he
halts this process during the boot up by pressing any keyboard key.

How does he stop his PC attempting to go through the above lengthy process
each time on boot up ? Does he have to let it go through the complete
procedure at least once ? After that should he no longer get the warning ?

2, MORE IMPORTANTLY....

He is a keen fan of FS2004, and having now got his new upgraded PC, set to,
to install it for the first time, under my supervision. Having "succesfully
installed FS2004", he boots it up and finds ALL MANNER OF PROBS.....the main
one being that FS2004 refuses to acknowledge he has a all bells and whistles
graphics card (Radeon Pro9700), and "greys out" all the options to increase
hardrware settings, like, Bi-Linear Filtering, Water Textures, and many many
others. Also the graphics on launching FS2004 are pathetic, and it jerks all
over the place !!!

HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED SIMILAR PROBS ? What needs to be done ? Is it
possible that during the hard drive file transfer process at the shop, they
have forgot to do something, and certain files havent transferred across ?
Would installing the latest Radeon drivers, help ? (I have my doubts)


I would really appreciate your help on this one URGENTLY, and could you
please email me DIRECTLY to if you can help ?

Many many thanks !

Derek