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aurorascion · Mar 13, 2008, 03:00 PM // 15:00

When I went to play guildwars this morning, it did a Repairing Data Archive thing, and now I'm having this emote problem. When I type any emote, I can't see my character do it on the screen. Other people see it though. I tried -repair and -img too see if I had lost a file or something, but no new files were downoaded.

Has anyone got a clue why this happened, and how to fix it without downloading a new .dat file? I really don't want to do that, I know it will take forever. But I miss my emotes.

[Morkai] · Mar 13, 2008, 03:15 PM // 15:15

If you've noticed, it only work on some emotes. For me it does it with female Ranger emotes. Also female Ele's. They won't dance nor sit on my screen.

I get Repairing Data Archive a lot...but i'm told it's because i use a Maxtor HDD. If you're using Maxtor, this may be the cause. I'm looking into changing mine to one that was reccomended on here. eBuyer.com sells a 500GB Samsung for about 60 quid.

gone · Mar 13, 2008, 04:29 PM // 16:29

I'm going to have to say, using a maxtor HD isn't the reason...

I've played gw on roughly 40 different maxtor HD's (from usb/ide/sata & all different sizes) and never encountered the problems you're mentioning.

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not to mention various other brands as well. if you are constantly getting data repairs, perhaps the drive itself is going. best thing to do is d/l a diagnostic tool and test the drive.

[Morkai] · Mar 13, 2008, 04:51 PM // 16:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by flubber

I'm going to have to say, using a maxtor HD isn't the reason...

I've played gw on roughly 40 different maxtor HD's (from usb/ide/sata & all different sizes) and never encountered the problems you're mentioning.

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not to mention various other brands as well. if you are constantly getting data repairs, perhaps the drive itself is going. best thing to do is d/l a diagnostic tool and test the drive.

Any chance of a link to a relatively safe one?

Tarun · Mar 13, 2008, 04:55 PM // 16:55

If you have Eye of the North you can copy that dat file over in place of your current one and then do a -image (you're basically doing a reinstall).

I also know from experience that Maxtor drives are very bad. They're noisy and go bad quite often. Bad sectors, issues in SMART, and many other issues. Not quite as bad as the Quantum Fireballs used to be though.

Edit: Berek, if you're using a Maxtor drive you can now use Seagate's Seatools. It can find and repair bad sectors and other issues.

To check the SMART status of your drive, you can use HDTune.

gone · Mar 13, 2008, 04:59 PM // 16:59

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...oads/seatools/

it's for maxtor/seagate drives. linked from maxtor's main site.

rotflmao @ "maxtor drives being very bad"

never had one quit yet. they are no worse than any other HD.

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and on a side note, when building, I try and steer people away from installing OS's on drives over 80gb...but that is just the old school in me.

aurorascion · Mar 13, 2008, 08:07 PM // 20:07

I have had to do a few data archive repairs over the past year with the game. It doesn't follow a pattern like having to do it after a I have defragmented or something. I have no idea what drive I'm using so I'll have to figure that out. I'm a nurse so I know about people-ware and less about hardware

I'm sure I can ask some techies in the guild now that I know what to focus on.
Thanks

tijo · Mar 13, 2008, 09:36 PM // 21:36

I had a different problem after a data archive repair. -repair and -image didn't fix it. Deleting the Gw.dat file and downloading a completely new one fixed it though.

Usually this is due to some corruption in the Gw.dat file and sometimes it can't be fixed by just repairing the file.

aurorascion · Mar 14, 2008, 09:55 AM // 09:55

I ended up deleting and downloading the dat file again.
Everything works fine now. Hopefully it won't happen again.
Thanks for the input