Problems with Raptor

[theshonen8899]

I just bought a 74 gb Western Digital Raptor drive from newegg, the OEM version. I installed windows on it fast as **** and got on my programs working except for the games. I don't know why but Quake 4 won't boot off this drive. I used the program folder from the other drive to boot Quake 4 but this drive won't do it. I tried replaceing the program folder on the raptor with the one on the other drive but it still wouldn't work. 3Dmark 06 doesn't run correctly either. Anyone have a solution for this before I ship it back?

 

[cyrax]

Did you uninstall Q4 then install it on that new drive?

 

[theshonen8899]

Three times ><

 

[cyrax]

Maybe you have set the drives up the wrong way? I don't know much at all about it, but maybe look at that master/slave thing? I dunno.

 

[Nubius]

master/slave would have nothing to do with it...beyond that SATA's dont utilize master/slave configs.

I have no idea as to how to fix your problem though as I've never heard of anything like that happening. Could be bad sectors on the drive, so I guess all you can really do is RMA it.

 

[Jason S]

When you uninstall it make sure there is no Quake4 folder, if there is delete it. Then try reinstalling it. Has everything been freshly installed?

 

[theshonen8899]

..It was xfire. >< Thanks for the help though. Maybe you xfire/Quake4 users can help me find out why it crashes with xfire now.