No hard disk error when trying to edit faces in the construction set

[Retribution]

Every time I try to edit a face in the Construction Set, I get a no hard disk error, something to do with drive 3. I can do other things in the CS just fine. I do have the Oblivion disc in the drive, obviously.

[Jenrai]

That's a... weird one. Even for the CS.

 

Do you have any customizations made to your CS configuration (ini) file?

If so, remove em, and cross your fingers. Re-making the .ini MAY work, it may not.

Is that drive working ok with everything else?

Do any programs/mods you have stored on the drive the error message is referring to still work as normal? If yes, have you scanned & defragged the drive lately? If no, do so.

Is there any space left on that drive?

Less than a couple of hundred mb left on a HDD will force your computer to start throwing up random errors when it tries to access that drive for something, and with how much of a pair of resource gannets Oblivion & the CS are, they'll likely be amongst the first programs to start showing errors.

 

If none of that helps, we might need more information, such as exactly what the error message says, and version information on your copy of the CS, wether you launch it through OBSE (if you do, try launching it without OBSE) and stuff like that.

 

Good Luck.

Jenrai

[Retribution]

As far as I know I don't have any customizations to it. The drive is working fine with everything else. All of my mods are working fine, and my drive isn't fragmented at all. There's about 800 gigabytes left on the drive. I don't even know how to launch my construction set through OBSE.

[Retribution]

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[TodaY]

Omg weirdest bug ever... Did you try editing vanilla faces? Maybe it helps if you preview full before you try to preview head...

Maybe you should search your computer for the specific drive, I'm not an expert on troubleshooting but this could be a problem

that goes further than your cs

The only other thing I can think of is that the cs uses a drive your computer doesn't have by default...

odd

[Vagrant0]

Have a virtual (emulated) drive active?

 

You're using Windows 7 right? Have you tried loading the full body preview before loading the face? I crash if I don't, so it's probably something that the CS doesn't like with W7.

[Jenrai]

Ooh. Nice catch Vagrant0. Didn't even think about that (probably just because I've never had the error)

 

Have you maybe installed Oblivion to a virtual drive, Retribution? If you have and you've moved that drive, or the CS is looking for it in the wrong drive, that could explain this. Alternatively, or if you can't repoint the CS to look for it in the right drive, try it with the disk in your DvD/CD drive. It may be a problem with your virtual drive software, but I have the game virtually mounted too (hey, I have a terrabyte and a half to use up, so I might as well! Plus it saves all that faffing around with disks without running the risk of a dodgy crack.) and I've never seen this. I would have thought that if this was the issue, it would occur whenver you try to work in the CS, but hey, TESCS works in mysterious ways!

 

Good Luck.

Jenrai

[Retribution]

I fixed it by loading the full body first, and then clicking the face tab. I still got the error, but it went away. After editing a face and saving the esp, oblivion won't load up, it just freezes. Is there any reason I can't just edit the esp?