paradigm9 Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 I installed JKII on my primary slave drive...western digital caviar 120gig ata 100. The drive is almost brand new and has all my games on it...still has about 112gig free. So, playing JKII and one day my quick save won't quick load and gives me a bad chunk error? Something like checksum failed. I continued from a different save game and a few days later the same thing happened...it only happened to the quick slot, but that may just be because thats the file i load most often. I shut down and rebooted and all hell broke loose. My computer was molasses....after finally troubleshooting to the slave drive I found that the JKII directory had been corrupted and caused the disk to become unreadable. Rebooted into safe mode command prompt and fixed the disk, now everything seems ok. Anyone else experience anything like this? Is this game specific or more of a new hard drive failure? thank gods that wasnt my system disk... Specs: win2k pro all updates athlon 1900+ not oc'ed msi k266apro2 ru 512mb ddr pc2100 geforce3 sblive seagate cheetah system drive wd1200 caviar slave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooJediHamster Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 Sounds like you just experienced a harddrive failure to me, they aren't that common but they do sometimes happen even with new drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threetall Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 I cant point fingers but I remember reading similar threads here(ie saved games and damages caused). Sorry but you will have to search them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ISURUS Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 how is a game going to corrupt a physical disk? I would recommend that you run some utility against your hard drive (tufftest). Hardware components are sold so cheaply and produced so fast these days that quality control is low. Jedi Knight 2 has some bugs, but this is not one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threetall Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Cycling read-write loops can kill a disk fast. Especially these newer fragile disks. Granted, any programmer that final-codes a bad loop would never be a game programmer, but ya never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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