Holy Cheese

Hi Smudger, thanks for the link, hadn’t seen that one. I had already opened the HDD to see if the heads were stuck, they weren’t. May now have a look at that USB option they mention. Nick, thanks too for your input. I suspect you are right about needing specialized hardware. My OS was on a different SSD but thanks to parts of certain programs being saved in C:\ this is now a problem. I installed P3D v5.2 and tried to run it but although this is a fresh install it still recognized the old scenery.CFC on C and threw me up over 400 errors - so I just used the task manager to quit. I don’t know if the command to delete generated files will help me out here, or if my best bet is to bite the bullet and re-install Windows 10. Thanks for your interest. Jack

Thanks John for trying to help. I've googled a lot and found a video showing how to open an HDD and to free up the heads, but unfortunately the heads were not stuck so I guess I am stuffed. The drive was manufactured in 2012, so I reckon it has gone to meet its maker, as they say. Cheers Jack

Hi Gents, This week I unfortunately suffered a HDD failure which is causing me a bit of grief. A couple of years ago, due to space running short on my C:\ drive, I relocated the documents, downloads etc folders to my D:\drive this is the drive that has now died on me. As a consequence I have now lost everything that was stored in these user folders. The drive is completely dead, have tried everything I have read on the net, but I have not been able to find any way to recover these folders. Does anybody know if this is at all possible? Thanks for any help. Jack

Stone me, I was in so much of a rush last night that I just posted the screenies then went to bed - I didn't even notice my scenery did not look right. It certainly does look like stock scenery to me. Thanks Nick for your prompt action. Cheers Jack

Here you go, sorry it took so long. Jack

Will do, if you can wait for about 15 - 20 mins. I'm just installing some Orbx stuff at the moment, and don't have KSAN installed yet. I'll do that next then take a couple of shots. Jack

Worked fine for me. I noticed it when I first installed P3D5, and did the fix that Nick recommended, and it cured the problem. Can't for the life of me remember which airport I first saw it at though. Cheers Jack

See the 4th sticky from the top of this forum. Jack

So sad to read this news. Neil will be sorely missed by all. RIP. Jack

Pat, I was not making any geopolitical statement, simply pointing out that Todd said in his opening post that they would not be doing any airports for regions. I imagine that this is a question of whether or not the freeware airports that Niel, Todd ,Larry, Sylvain etc are doing blend in with both FTX Global and a full blown ORBX region, but I don't know enough about scenery design to say if that is correct or not. Cheers Jack

Michael, Todd mentioned in his opening post that they will not be considering airports in full blown ORBX regions. Suggest that OzX is the way to go for you. Cheers Jack

Fantastic Sylvain, looking forward to it, many thanks Cheers Jack

Love to see LSZR Altenrhein - Sylvain already hinted he may do it. Cheers Jack

LOL yeah... Where is it, Samui or Samet ? Neither Heiko...it's on the beach at Klong Phrao on the island of Koh Chang. Fantastic place, really recommend it Cheers Jack

Real Name: Jack Johnston Forum Name Holy Cheese - picked this name up while flying with Livewire VA. We used to do a Friday night online flight, and a French Canadian gave me this name which has stuck ever since. From Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but now live in Heiden, Switzerland since the last 15 years. Have moved around a bit over the years, having also lived in Dubai, Kuwait and Denmark. Switzerland is now home, though. Work for a company which manufactures medical compression stockings for treating varicose veins etc, and you guys down in Oz keep us nice and busy because you are all very conscientious about wearing your flight socks to prevent DVT I'm the export manager responsible for Asia, Australia and NZ. Been simming since the days of Commodore 64. Cheers Jack