Curse

manitoba1073 · Jul 02, 2008, 09:01 AM // 09:01

Every other day my damn .dat is repairing. Ive already done a full delete and reinstall with -image. just got me buggered. hmm I gonna try moving the second GW folder out of Program files temporarily and then move it back in. Maybe with GWx2 it kinda partially buggered the registry. Ill get back soon. see what others might think.

Quaker · Jul 02, 2008, 03:33 PM // 15:33

I'm not familiar with what sort of buggering GWx2 could do, but it could simply be that your hard drive is going bad. Gw.dat is a big file and covers lots of hard drive space. If you have a bad sector in there somewhere it would cause problems.

ducktape · Jul 02, 2008, 03:50 PM // 15:50

That's exactly what I was thinking. You can use chkdsk to locate and possibly repair the bad file allocation. If not, you may have to recreate your dat file, but at least the bad areas of the disk will be flagged by chkdsk and it won't put any data on those areas anymore and cause further problems.

To run chkdsk:

Click Start

Click Run

Type CMD in the box and hit enter or click OK

Now you will be at the command prompt, type this exact phrase:

chkdsk /F /R

Make sure you do caps on the F and R, and to include the spaces as shown. It will tell you that the volume is in use and ask if you want to do chkdsk at the next boot, choose Y and reboot. It will take an hour or more, depending on your disk size, but that would take care of the problem if your dat keeps being stored in a bad sector of your drive.

manitoba1073 · Jul 02, 2008, 06:58 PM // 18:58

chkdsk was fine. Forgot to mention already ran it. Thats why Im stumped. But since just renamed the name of the main folder Im gonna wait to see for a little while.