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Who the hell wants to get married?? The best part of marriage is divorce. Just throwing that out there...

Not to be a buzzkill or nothing, but its only at 42,000 feet.

I didnt take it as one, if everyone got their panties in a wad over a hard drive this place would be very different!

I forget which one this one was, I got this drive from Newegg for an eggspert review, and for it being just a 5200rpm drive it sure is pretty fast.

The openbeta updated to the 1.2.8 RC3 for me. Good thing about the open beta is that its still the open beta when the next beta patches come out. Good thing is that you dont have to keep two separate installs on the hard drive.

my raid array - averaged 210mb/s ocz - averaged 275mb/s evo - maintained 455mb/s 5200 rpm 2tb seagate - averaged 130mb/s Guess defraggler only tests burst write speed and not much else...

Test it with piriform defraggler. Mac cant do anything right. Scratch that - Im testing mine now with HD Tune pro, for the lolz. (I hate that word)

It was my first foray into an SSD, it went into a laptop, it was 150 bucks for the 240gb version, and it was fast enough. Faster than those 5400rpm laptop drives.

It was Grand Theft Auto 4 and REX. I didnt have other files written to those disks, as everything else was written to my SSD. Heres a fun fact: My new Samsung EVO 840(ish) is a little faster than my two WD Caviar Black RAID0 array. My array writes at 62mb/s while my SSD writes at 81 mb/s. OTOH, my OCZ Agility 3 writes at 31mb/s. My math may be off, but a RAID0 array with 3 WD blacks will smoke any SSD out on the market. Cheaper too, as these are the 1tb SATA3 models. I might do a RAID0+1 if my bios will allow me to use an external drive as the +1 part.

It wasnt software, it was a hardware issue. The hardware issue was causing the software issue, where all the registry items were directed to my dvd rom drive due to a failure of a disk in my RAID array. Windows reassigned my dvd drive as D, whereas my RAID array was formerly known as D drive.

Who needs a manual when you have youtube?

Ill argue the case that I already knew how to do this, but its valueable for others who dont know.

I love how the new Huey cockpit looks at night with the lights on. Feels like Im working at my desk with a reading lamp. Love it!

Ive fixed it, and listed the fix above. It was a drive that was allocated to a RAID array, and this disk wasnt identical to the other two disks in the array. When I deleted the array, windows kept recognizing it as part of the array and marked it as an unallocated disk. I had to delete this and start from scratch with the disk, and Ive been able to reassign the disk to D again. This created a bunch of registry issues, but it fixed my big issue. The rest I can fix on my own.

Disk management doesnt give me any options. Ive been at this computer tweaking stuff for little over 12 years, this has to be the weirdest thing Ive ever encountered. Ok...new thing - my D drive is now my blu ray player...how the hell do I change this drive letter??? Ok, all fixed. Here was my issue: when I installed my new SSD, I had to change my bios from RAID to AHCI, which deleted my raid array. I rebuilt the RAID array, but one of the disks isnt uniform with the other two. The disk was showing up as an unaccessable dynamic disk in Disk Management for some reason or other. I had to delete the drive and reformat it, and now its showing up as a valid disk again. Doing so allowed me to reallocate my D drive to somewhere else.

Just to bounce an idea off of heads here, the directory D: still exists, but it says insert disk into drive when trying to access the directory. Heres the quirk - BIOS recognizes the hard drive, it allows me to set it up in a RAID array. It slows it down quite a bit, and placing it on an external source only recognizes it as a cd drive...

I wish I could do this, Windows has D drive assigned already and wont relinquish it. I cant even assign a new hard drive to D...which is kind of the problem, because this is why I cant install. Will give this a shot...

Is there any way to delete all references to the defunct drive? Ive had quite a bit of stuff on that hard drive, but only a few instances where its caused me some problems. Ive tried Ccleaner and TuneUp Utilities to clean the registry, but this stuff is like herpes.

Hardly. Its REX and Grand Theft Auto 4 that Im having issues with.....

Its my D drive that bit the big one. C is where my windows resides. D drive was my RAID array.

Just had a disk go bad, and that drive had to be removed. All of the software that was on that drive cannot be reinstalled because I get an error message saying access denied - invalid drive path. I cant install because I need to uninstall it from the dead drive. I cant uninstall because the drive is missing, and I cant reinstall because it wants to repair the software first in a defunked location. Some odd reason, it just wants to verify the files are there before it repairs. I cant reassign the drive letter, because its been taken. How would I go about solving this issue? Perhaps force a fresh installation?

Another thing that can help - in helicopters, you can request a refuel-rearm with the engines turning at full rpm. You cant do this in fixed wing.

Update - he is serious.

Thats what I thought.

Small question, will this be released as a beta when it IS released?