Author Topic: Problem: hard drive issues and reinstalling - but no workey workey!  (Read 2423 times)

Offline MayaD

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 :-\ so I bought a super new gaming computer at christmas and immediately crammed all my sims 3 up until that point onto the solid state hard drive (my C:drive). I had no problems until I started having power supply issues so I sent it to the makers who fixed it for me. I popped on a few more expansions over the year and more recently when supernatural came out realised I had no space left!! Weirder still I seemed to be LOSING space randomly.. even when I wasnt playing.

 My game was laggy and so I decided to save my supernatural to my Z:drive (a TB of delicious space!) .. The issue on the C:drive continued to the point where my computer blue screened me. So my friend deleted my Temp file for me (Im no pc genius!!) and I started to uninstall a few more sims expansions and move them over to my Z:drive aswell. My C:drive looks much happier!!

But I can't play my sims!!! When I click on the launcher icon it says error during startup - see Log for details and then cancels. Another box once popped up and merrily stated - "the shortcut it is referring to has been moved and no longer works, nearest match is Z:\sims\sims ambitions\game\Bin\Sims3Launcher.exe".

It then asks if I want to fix so I say yes but it makes no difference.. the route it gives still leads to the error. The Sims file contains 4 further files, one for each expansion, which I had to custom save as default was my C:drive. Are there too many files? can the expansions not be read together if they are save this way? How can I save it so that the game can 'see' it??

It's just odd because it worked for the supernatural fine. Since I uninstalled and reinstalled a few more.. nothing works!

Really hope someone can suggest what I've done wrong! Cheers guys!

 Maya


NB: I am going to try and re-install my supernatural last and use that disc.. as I have read that you need to use the latest expansion to play.

NBB: that didn't work  >:(

Offline Margerita

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Re: problem: hard drive issues and reinstalling - but no workey workey!
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2012, 01:08:56 PM »
Have you tried uninstalling everything and then install all of it on drive Z?
That might be what is wrong.



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Offline MayaD

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Re: problem: hard drive issues and reinstalling - but no workey workey!
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2012, 01:30:39 PM »
It's just strange because the sims3 and all but supernatural was on C:drive. And it worked fine.. even though supernatural was on Z.. it was still able to share across the hard drives. so I move a few more over and it suddenly doesn't work?? Just weird. I was a bit loath to move it all across because my C:drive is super fast and my other one has lots of space.. thats why I stuck all my sims on C .. I guess if no-one else has any ideas I'll have to give that a shot! It's the best choice i have so far.

any idea how to make the Z drive the default when saving?

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Re: problem: hard drive issues and reinstalling - but no workey workey!
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2012, 03:15:35 PM »
I bit the bullet and reinstalled the sims3 on C: and the expansions on Z: and although a tad slower it's working fine now.. Thanks :)