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| Harddrive crash... FSP files |
Author: xwhitemousex 62 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation  | Date 10-25-10 06:57 |
My secondary harddrive just took a nosedive last night and died on me. Getting an error during startup now that tells me "AHCI Port1 device error".
Tried different ways to get it working, but eventually had to disable it in the BIOS setup.
I still have my primary C: disk with the OS and everything, but the secondary HDD with all my game files is shot down. Going to be a full week of
reinstallation of many games and programmes, including FSX, addons and included in that naturally FSPassengers.
Now, I'm not so worried about the installation and all. It takes time to get it all up and running again, but easy enough.
What concerns me is the FSPassengers advancement, such as the Company and Pilot I created. Are those lost forever and need to replay it?
I checked in my windows files on C: drive and found some files like the flightplans, logbok and also some FSPassenger files listed under User/My
Documents.
These are called:
Last FsPassengersX save.FLT
Last FsPassengersX save.FSSAVE
Last FsPassengersX save.WX
So my question is... after I reinstall FSX, all the addons including of course any aircraft I had bought for my FSP company, then install FSP. Can I
then copy over the 3 above files into the User/My Documents folder and recover my Company and Pilot info even though the FSX and FSP folders on the
other harddrive crashed?
Hoping I can salvage it, else I'll just need to strap in for some intense flying in the days ahead to catch up again.
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| Re: Harddrive crash... FSP files |
Author: DavidK 151 Posts Status: Instructor Pilot  | Date 10-25-10 13:23 |
Those three files look like the kinds of files saved by FSX, not FSP, when you save a flight.
I believe all the information about FSP pilots, advancement, companies, etc is stored in FSP's "database" folder. At least, that's what's copied when you use the make-backup option from the FSP menu available once you start or load a flight.
David K
Post Edited ( 10-25-10 14:09 )
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| Re: Harddrive crash... FSP files |
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Author: xwhitemousex 62 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation | Date 10-25-10 14:51 |
Gah... so what you are saying is that all my FSP flight hours are gone >.<
And I was 'on final' towards getting certed for my ATR *cries*
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| Re: Harddrive crash... FSP files |
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Author: xwhitemousex 62 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation | Date 10-25-10 19:22 |
Well, just tested and just copying said files over didn't work.
So looks like I am back to scratch and have to earn my flight hours from Cessna 172 and up again.
Just finished installing addon airplanes and FSPassengers, but going to hold off on REX2 and UTX. Rather play a bit tonight and then put on the
downloads overnight. Really frustrating to lose all that advancement, not to mention discouraging >.<
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| Re: Harddrive crash... FSP files |
Author: iflyfsx 418 Posts Status: Confirmed Astronaut  | Date 10-25-10 20:55 |
Those files can only tell you what kind of airplane you were flying and at which airport you were the last time you used FSP. What you want to backup,
often, is your FSP database in the FSP folder.
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| Re: Harddrive crash... FSP files |
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Author: xwhitemousex 62 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation | Date 10-25-10 22:29 |
Yeah, learned that the hard way... though didn't really expect my harddrive to completely die on me like that.
Going to be storing alot of files on memsticks and what more once I have everything downloaded again.
On the bright side, never hurts to practice additional landings with the little airplanes again either.
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| Re: Harddrive crash... FSP files |
Author: timtomairways Www 1351 Posts Status: Living Legend  | Date 10-25-10 23:04 |
It may be possibel to recover them. Ya might have to take it to a pro thoue.
Mocha hagotdi
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Author: DavidK 151 Posts Status: Instructor Pilot | Date 10-26-10 01:53 |
timtomairways wrote:
It may be possibel to recover them. Ya might have to take it to a pro thoue.
Worth considering if (1) you really can't face starting from scratch again (understandable) and (2) you can get someone, preferably someone specific, recommended to you. There are more or less expensive data recovery programs out there, but I'd only consider trying them if I felt it worth the cost and (more importantly) I felt sufficiently confident about how to use whichever one I chose.
Keep backups -- especially of things you've built up -- on something physically separate from the originals, i.e. on another hard drive, a USB stick, etc.
David
Post Edited ( 10-26-10 01:56 )
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