Well anything on his second drive that was copied and uses the registry was instantly munged unless he was partitioned
before. i.e. the registry stores locations like D:\.... (assuming D: was his second drive). Putting in one big drive
and partitioning it as C: killed all those previous registry references. Also partitioning everything to one drive
could have moved the location of his CD/DVD drive. I wouldn't say the registry is corrupt, rather it is invalid for the
most part at this point. Prior to reinstalling the OS make sure he backs up anything he wants to keep.

--
....Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com


"Derek" wrote in message ...
Hi Carl,

Thanks for the advice.

Since I posted my plea for help, he HAS managed to install the latest
drivers for his Radeon Graphics card (or at least he THINKS they are the
latest !). This seems to have helped him restart and run FS2004 much better.
But his system is still far from what it was before he took it in to the
shop. Many things are still missing, like his drivers for his Slide Scanner,
Printer etc etc.

He is now taking the machine back to the shop on Monday, with a reluctant
view to haveing them format his new hard drive. It is my opinion that
something is wrong in his registry and this wont be cured until a format
takes place.

For your info, he had two separate drives to start off with, and they just
took his old "master" drive out, put a new bigger one in its place, and
"copied" everything from his old one to his new one. His other "slave" drive
wasnt touched.

Thanks for all your help mate.

Cheers

Derek

"Carl Frisk" wrote in message
.. .
Sounds like the chipset drivers aren't installed correctly anymore. Also
BEWARE the event log warnings about an
imminent drive failure are probably true. I just had a drive go out 2
hours after the first warnings appeared. You
could run the drive manufactures diagnostics tool to test the drive. I
wouldn't trust it at this point. It could be a
bad cable. It could be a lot of things. Just copying the data from one
drive to other if it is the boot OS is going to
cause problems. If the disk was imaged you may be OK. What happened to
the old drive? Does he now have two installed?

I'd take it back to the shop.

--
...Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com


"Derek" wrote in message
...
Hi Alan,

Thanks very much for the interesting reply.

He has decided VERY reluctantly to bite the bullet, and take his PC back
on
Monday, and have his new Hard Drive, formatted ! This I presume, wipes
the
REGISTRY clean aswell hopefully. This SHOULD eliminate any problems with
FS2002 and FS2004 in his registry that he has had over the years.

But I still dont know why the straightforward installation of FS0024
complete, would mean that it doesnt even RECOGNISE that he has such a
card
as the Radeon 9700 PRo even installed ! He cant adjust sliders on things
like "Bi Linear Filtering", "Enhanced Water Detail", or even use the
"alt
and enter" command to make his flightsim desktop go full screen. He
could do
ALL of the above with his old FS2002 Pro, but not with FS2004.

Thanks for your help matey. I dont know where to go from here.

Derek (20 miles west of the English Lake District)

"Alan White" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 14 May 2004 12:46:09 +0000 (UTC), "Derek"
wrote:

What were your symptoms ??

The problem is only mildly related to yours.

For the past six months, the Windows XP Event Viewer has been
predicting the imminent demise of my C drive.

I purchased a replacement, installed it as a second drive and on to it
backed up my original drive. The backup drive then replaced the
original and became the new C drive. The backup isn't an analogue of
the original in terms of functionality, e.g. the desktop settings are
different and applications that worked on the original don't work on
the backup. I haven't carried out a rigourous examination. I'll
probably do that when the current C drive dies!

This just demonstrates that simply copying files from one drive to
another isn't simplistic.

BTW, FlightSim wasn't affected as it's on another drive.

My advice is still 'take it back to the shop'.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
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