SirTwist Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I had bought a new hard drive, and I was in the process of installing it. I had, instead, deleted my main hard drive's partition. Luckily my games, well most of them, weren't on my main hard drive. They were on other drives. Now, I have the dubious honor of linking steam back to the games. The lesson here is this, don't try to install a new hard drive while tired, slightly drunk, and slightly upset at things. Bad things happen. On a side note, all my saves are gone. So I can change up some mods, and check out some other stuff. I can live with that. I will have to do the same for Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, and SSE. But at least I didn't lose anything truly important like the mods. I think once I get things back to "normal" for me, I will be back commenting all over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krwada Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I had bought a new hard drive, and I was in the process of installing it. I had, instead, deleted my main hard drive's partition. Luckily my games, well most of them, weren't on my main hard drive. They were on other drives. Now, I have the dubious honor of linking steam back to the games. The lesson here is this, don't try to install a new hard drive while tired, slightly drunk, and slightly upset at things. Bad things happen. On a side note, all my saves are gone. So I can change up some mods, and check out some other stuff. I can live with that. I will have to do the same for Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, and SSE. But at least I didn't lose anything truly important like the mods. I think once I get things back to "normal" for me, I will be back commenting all over here.Hey ... starting from scratch with a new HDD is not so bad. It gives you an excuse to do a new play-through. I did this when the HDD controller on my mother-board crapped out. This gave me the excuse to purchase a brand new Motherboard with the new Coffee-Lake 6-core I7 ... and a bunch of other stuff. Also; I was pleasantly surprised that re-installing to the latest F04 solved a huge number of issues for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jones177 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I did about the same thing back in 2011 and lost my Heavily modded Oblivion & Fallout 3. Since then I save my modded games on portable USB HDs. I too updated to a 6 core Coffee Lake & had to go from Win 7 to 10. I had the game folder, my games folder & the Appdata local files saved on the portable HD. In a few hours I was up and running with all my modded games. Akrwada. A lot of the game issues were probably solved by your new CPU. I updated from a i7 2600k chip but run the same save games on a computer with a i7 6700k chip. My new i7 8700k chip blows them both away when it comes to my heavily modded games. It is so good that I loaded up my original character saves(2015 vintage) that I abandoned because they would no longer play smooth after the DLCs & updates. They are totally smooth now & for the past few weeks I have been doing a nostalgia trip visiting my original settlement builds. To give my new CPU a torture test I loaded up a save that has bloat(95mgs) & it ran smooth as well. Watching reviews on Youtube I knew the chip would be good for high frame rate games but there are no reviews on modded games. My monitors are 60hz so high frame rate is meaningless to me. Reducing frame rate drops is all that matters to me & with my new 6 core i7 all the drops are above 60fps. Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirTwist Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 I was lucky to have installed my game, and mod organizer 2, on a separate drive. I am going to replace one of my optical drives with a new hard drive, so I can clone my current windows to it. After that is complete, I am going to wipe my current drive, replace one of the others I am using for games, etc. and use that until I can get another, same size, to replace the one I am currently using. Then moving all of my games, etc. to that one. Well, copy over all my stuff. Then do some pokery and jiggery, and make all my shortcuts work again. I don't just play Fallout 4, but also Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, and a number of other games. I believe when I am done, I will have one main drive I store the os on, plus some other stuff that I have on the drive. The games, etc. will be moved to a whole other drive that is for games, modding, etc. This way, I won't have to work as hard as before. I do have a drive I should, eventually pull out. It's one I have had for a long time. I believe since I bought the case, as part of a bare bones kit I bought way back when Tiger Direct was going good with barebones kits. I believe I was running, originally, windows XP on a 500 gb drive, which I still have on that drive, and the 1 tb I got with the kit was a seagate 1 tb drive. I threw Windows 7 on it. Then upgrade to 10. It was starting to not play nice, so I bought a Western Digital drive. I will say I probably won't ever buy anymore Seagates. They tend to go bad. That's the first drive I am replacing. The WD I will, eventually, replace with a larger one. Right now, just trying to get things back to being able to run, and decently. I am getting there. As to Fallout 4, and modding it, I do have all my mods, etc. I just have to reestablish the links in Mod Organizer 2, which is not all that hard. Just need to replace the drive letter is all. Easy peasy. On a side note, I still have the 500 gb drive, it's IDE, or PATA, and I want to, eventually drop it, and get a better mb, and have things better. I would rather run AMD based cpu's over Intel. I am, though, a dichotomy. I prefer AMD cpu's over Intel, and Nvidia over ATI. Unless the ATI is in a laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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