Tygore
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Post by Tygore on Jun 15, 2009 18:19:13 GMT -5
Hey guys I bought gta4 off steam and after a lil bit of downloading i was ready to play but an error popped up and it said "GTA4 FATAL ERROR: Must have windows vista service pack 1 to play" I thought ok what could go wrong....lil did i know it would kill my hardrive..i got my new one today and im about to put it in but Im wondering if theres a way to get around this...or did I just blow 50$ for nothing =.=
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Post by Darknezz on Jun 15, 2009 18:32:08 GMT -5
Windows Vista SP1 shouldn't cause any harm to a hard drive. At all.
What I'm guessing happened was that either your harddrive just needed a good reformat, or that it died because it was old.
In any case, if it is indeed dead, all you need to do is install Windows on the new drive, update, and there ya go. Of course, I would suggest going to get a copy of XP, because it is superior, but that's just me.
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Tygore
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Post by Tygore on Jun 15, 2009 18:36:25 GMT -5
Well my computer is a dell xps 420 if you wanna know specifics we got it about...year or 2 ago...so it might have just been an old hardive...but either way if i download it again im worried about it crashing again
and i went through every option f12 f2 even the whole f8 ordeal nothing worked it all lead to a blue screen
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Post by Darknezz on Jun 16, 2009 1:49:05 GMT -5
It's only 2 years old? It shouldn't be dying like that. Then again, Dell is kind of a terrible company.
I take it that you know how to reformat and reinstall Windows, right? You should have tried that before saying the hard drive was bad. My computer just recently had Boot Blues, and all it took was a reinstall of Windows to fix it. If the hard drive were the issue, your computer wouldn't even know to blue screen. It would sit at the BIOS screen going, "wat."
All that aside, if Vista's Service Packs cause this again, I would suggest contacting Microsoft support.
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Tygore
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Post by Tygore on Jun 16, 2009 7:09:28 GMT -5
See thats what im worried about..it saying "this may take over an hour" then freezing up during installation at like 23458/999589 or whatever the number was
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Post by Darknezz on Jun 16, 2009 17:10:02 GMT -5
The freezing may be normal; Windows appears to freeze during a lot of processes such as Disk Checker. However, if you leave it sitting there for a little while, it may move on.
Like I said, though, contacting Microsoft seems like the best option at this point, as I am not experienced with automatic updates or Vista.
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Tygore
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Post by Tygore on Jun 16, 2009 19:58:27 GMT -5
Well now it works so it had to be my hardrive...it did something totally different this time but ya everythings fine
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