Microsoft KB Archive/63117

FS 4.00 Error Msg: Error Reading Drive C 7979

PSS ID Number: Q63117 Article last modified on 11-08-1994

4.00 4.00A 4.00B

MS-DOS

Summary:

It has been reported that hard disks that are initialized and formatted using the Disk Manager from ONTRACK Computer Systems Inc. rather than MS-DOS hard disk preparation utilities will cause the “Error Reading Drive C 7979” message to appear when running Microsoft Flight Simulator. This error occurs because the Flight Simulator files are not copied over correctly.

To guarantee proper results, Microsoft Flight Simulator must be run on hard disks that have been initialized and formatted using the utilities provided with DOS.

Solutions:


 * 1) Flight Simulator may be run from the floppy drive.
 * 2) Prepare the hard disk using DOS hard disk initialization and formatting utilities such as FDISK and FORMAT. REMEMBER THAT ALL DATA WILL BE DESTROYED WHEN PERFORMING THIS OPERATION. Make sure that the system has been backed up before preparing the hard disk.

Additional reference words: seagate

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