Have Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Hi I installed new Windows 7 to my computer yesterday and while doing that I was deleting the old XP installations of various games, which needed to be reinstalled to work. Of course I didn't remember the activation / deactivation thing with Black Shark and deleted the game. Is there any way I could still deactivate my old installation and not loose one of these rare activations just because this? :helpsmilie: I tried viewing the serial number parameters at http://proactive.star-force.com/2.0/activate.php but it didn't help.
Boulund Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 (edited) I think you could just reinstall again without loosing either deactivation or activation. Edit: If your Black Shark installation was done back in XP, this method will NOT work for you. Edited October 30, 2009 by Boulund Core i5-760 @ 3.6Ghz, 4GB DDR3, Geforce GTX470, Samsung SATA HDD, Dell UH2311H 1920x1080, Saitek X52 Pro., FreeTrack homemade cap w/ LifeCam VX-1000, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1. FreeTrack in DCS A10C (64bit): samttheeagle's headtracker.dll
EtherealN Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 No Boulund, he has a new OS installed so he will probably lose that activation. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
Boulund Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 No Boulund, he has a new OS installed so he will probably lose that activation. Of course, you are correct and I misread. My mistake. :) Core i5-760 @ 3.6Ghz, 4GB DDR3, Geforce GTX470, Samsung SATA HDD, Dell UH2311H 1920x1080, Saitek X52 Pro., FreeTrack homemade cap w/ LifeCam VX-1000, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1. FreeTrack in DCS A10C (64bit): samttheeagle's headtracker.dll
Have Posted October 30, 2009 Author Posted October 30, 2009 I installed the new OS to a different partition and I still have the old XP up and running. Would that help the situation? Could I install the game to XP and use the deactivation process successfully and then install it to Win7? I wonder if Black Shark will be on the list of threatened species in 5-10 years time when all the activations have run out for most people.. Just think that for example Falcon 4.0 is still alive and kicking and it is over 10 years when it was released.
Boulund Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 I figure that if you've done no hardware modifications at all to your computer since your unfortunate "uninstall" you should be able to reinstall in XP and deactivate, uninstall from XP and the go to win7 and install it there, activate and not lose an activation. Correct me if i'm wrong? Core i5-760 @ 3.6Ghz, 4GB DDR3, Geforce GTX470, Samsung SATA HDD, Dell UH2311H 1920x1080, Saitek X52 Pro., FreeTrack homemade cap w/ LifeCam VX-1000, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1. FreeTrack in DCS A10C (64bit): samttheeagle's headtracker.dll
EtherealN Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 That should be the case, yes, though I am unsure if there is any impact from things like resizing partitions and so on, if such operations have been performed to the partition used by XP. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
hamelkarl Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 I don't think the resizing would have an impact on it, since windows still see the HDD being the same. It just a process that split it, and give him a different path. I don't see how it could have an impact. I don't know if it's the same way on XP than on Vista, but I probably sure it would have no impact on a vista.
Have Posted November 3, 2009 Author Posted November 3, 2009 I installed the game again, ran the deactivation successfully in XP and then used the deactivation code to activate in the Win7.
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