When you just can't let go/Proof of EB Greatness

**orwell** · 07-24-2006, 20:12

I've recently run into some problems with my EB install that have finally massed up into a serious, game stopping problem. No problem I figure, I'll uninstall and clear up my cluttered space, it probably just needs a bit more space. So I uninstall RTW/BI and all its modificitions and we're good. Sorta. The EB directory will not leave. So I go to delete it manually. No go: "You can not delete your RAM".

Ok, lets try this again with each individual files and this seems to work till I get to maps. "You can not delete your RAM".

So I go into that and start cleaning IT out, and I get to roads. Attempt a delete and I get the message: "Your C: drive is not formatted. Do you wish to format now?" Now, I know I had a lot of problems formatting because I have one IDE and a SATA card/drive which seems to upset it something terrible. But what the hell. I've been using my system for a year now and never got this. I've uninstalled EB several times and never got this.

Ok, ok, well, I know I've seen a manual uninstall guide for RTW. "Delete such and such from the registry". Oh wait, that doesn't exist, and I just did steps 2 and above. So that manual removal guide is useless.

I don't think I've ever bothered with that many smilies in anything before.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-24-2006, 21:34

I would back up whatever you have of value. It sounds like that hard drive doesn't have long for this world.

**Tuuvi** · 07-25-2006, 04:31

My experience with computers is: they all suck and they're always broken. If only they weren't so damn useful, we would all have a lot less stress in our lives.

**Stallion** · 07-25-2006, 10:09

Rename the map folder and move it. Occassionally I get this problem. You can't get rid of the files without a reformat unfortunately. Moving and renaming the files enables you to reinstall EB though.

**orwell** · 07-25-2006, 11:05

Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

I would back up whatever you have of value. It sounds like that hard drive doesn't have long for this world.

Despite the fact that I bought it just a year ago. Never, EVER, buy seagate. WD all the way. Its all gone, no helping it now. I've got a back up, but its about a year old. Even if I had tried to back up what I have, heh, that'd take 2 500 gb HDD's alone, and a third depending on how the external feels. So much for those video and animation projects. Oh, and the plugins and crap for the software.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-25-2006, 15:14

Sorry to hear the hard drive is kaput. I lost mine a few months ago but I had enough warning signs to get everything backed up first. The original and replacement were WD's.