Starforce Petition!

[Godsredeemed]

CMDR Sweeper.

Your remarks relative to devastating effects is really interesting .

I run, inaddition to my main machine, with up to 4 external HDs for various reasons.

Being a bit of a collector all of my latest software was stored on one of the external HDs.

I installed my one and only purchased SF protected game and something happened to completely destroy the file structrue of the HD storing all my software.

Needsless to say I had to reformat and start all over again.

For other reasons I too boycott SF, but I wonder if the one and only intall caused the external HD destruction?

I remain a StarForce boycotter. Hurry up DT "all is forgiven"!

[DABhand]

Collector? You mean downloaded images yes?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi guys, just a recent story for you...

Last Friday an old schoolmate of mine gave me a phone call, saying his PC stopped booting, saying there was no OS installed. He has Windows 98 as well as Windows XP, with quite a lot of applications installed, but the most important part was the music and samples for his own pop band and some other bands he lends a helping hand to. (Yeah, yeah, as usual, no backups at all!)

The problem turned out to be in the boot area and the beginning of FAT1 on the first, FAT32-formatted partition. Many sectors were simply overwritten by some system-related data (chunks from extended CMOS, registry or Windows system memory?). With careful inspection and manual/semi-automatic repair, everything came back, none of the partitions reported any file system problems in Checkdisk/Scandisk afterwards. (Ridiculously enough, the software that repaired the overwritten areas properly was fsck.vfat from my old Red Hat Linux installation!)

In the meantime, my friend told me that the moment when the PC stopped booting was when he installed GT Legends, a Starforce-protected game, and allowed it to reboot the PC. Guess what, now he wants to get rid of the game completely and never try to install a Starforce-protected game on his PC again!

[kenmaher]

tried to make back up and mount image so i could use lma 2005 whitout disc (star force 3) computer chrashed original stoped working downloaded starforce nightmare and something else just to get game to work again . wont be buying star force games again

[Vicente123]

**** Starforce!!!!