Games Wont Work on 2nd HDD

[Col.Sanders34]

i recently bought a ssd, reformatted my old OS hdd and installed only win 7 (and arma) on the SSD. My old HDD is now the one i use for software but wonky stuff keeps happening. So far everything but games (and a few updates) runs properly which leads me to believe its all related somehow.

The weirdness:
BF2 will install but when it tries to update to 1.1 before installing bf2: special forces i get the message that the update has failed. So second time around after, a thorough uninstall, reboot etc. i skip BF2: SF and goto install patch 1.41. It installs correctly, i try to install 1.50 and i get the message that my game is already up to date. I try to install PR and it fails.

So i say forget BF2 and try to install GRID. it installs fine but hangs on the splash screen.

So i say forget GRID, something is clearly wrong with my PC, I try to install the sims 3 and get (not a valid win32 application, or something like that) when trying to launch the game. Eventually i got it to work (the launcher is still broke) and try to install the WA expansion. It tries to update the game before installation and -wattayaknow- update fails.

So i move on from games frustrated and install MS office 2007. It all works fine. I try to update it however and get error code 92d and the update fails.


All other programs on my non-OS HDD including CS5 suite, utorrent, objectdock, itunes, creative x-fi related software, run and update without issues. Also i guess i should mention after every borked game install check disk will run if i reboot but it finds no errors.

Anyone have any idea whats going on. The only tweak i did for my system was enable AHCI mode for my SSD.

[SnipingCoward]

Did you maybe relocate some folders using juncitions/robocopy or the likes? This can cause problems. Win7 does not support relocating alot of the system folders to another disk.

As of the AHCI. This can screw up quite a bit. Have a read here:
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f358-s ... opped.html

[Col.Sanders34]

Nothings been relocated, only changed the save destination for my documents and desktop to my software hdd since the ssd has a limited amount of free space.

I did have some new developments today. After some intensive googling and repairing/reinstalling netframework 4 (which was the issues with some of the updates failing apparently) my 2nd hdd suddenly disappeared from windows all together. In the disk manager it was detected but reported as being uninitialized and labeled as disk 3 (even though i only have 3 hdds). I restarted to have a look in BIOS but was actually forced to enter BIOS since NONE of my sata drives were detected, no HDDs no CD drives, only options were for IDE configurations. After a good cry over the believed death of my 4 almost 5 year old rig, i powered off and opened to the lid to see if for some unlikely reason all my sata cables had popped out (im a firm believer in PC gremlins)- they hadn't. After about an hour of googling i powered my pc back on and everything was back to normal. Grid works, the sims installed fine, and ive yet to try bf2.

Im guessing my sata controller is showing signs of its age or something was overheating from two days of getting my pc loaded and up to speed after a clean install and a new ssd.

also i was getting the same 5 sec freezing and pb heartbeat failures when installed pr .95 prior to getting my ssd and all this other nonsense.

also didnt list my specs
mb: p5w dh
cpu: qx6850
hdd: intel x-25m 80gb (OS), WD caviar 250gb (apps) WD Caviar black 750gb (storage)
Win 7 64 ultimate