SC4 Took a Travel through Time...

[Kitsune]

So my computer crashed last week, and upon reboot windows thought it was February 2099. Screwed up a lot of stuff, ie my virus checker thought it was 88 years expired  So I fixed it.. rebooted and didnt notice a problem until I went to load my current working region. To my suprise, all my development was gone, and my tiles were in a pre-developed state (the trees were still there... the roads I layed were still there etc). It looked identical to the way it was a number of months ago. So I checked the last modify date... and somehow my tiles had reverted to a modify date of 11/27/10. No restore had taken place... and there was no backup of the files. Other cities showed this too, and the hard drive it was on was in a stable raid 1 array which is still functioning fine. And also no other programs showed this effect. Anyone ever have this happen to them?

[j-dub]

I'm on my 3rd drive for SC4. I was using windows movie maker one day, that program has serious problems, it crashed, gave me the blue screen error, and from then on would only operate in safe mode and not even be internet accessible for awhile. When I finally got Windows straightened out, the placement of things in the city save files were fine. I don't think nothing close sounds what happened to you. How your computer had a jump 88 years to the future time glitch, but memory loss back a year, beats me.

[jacksunny]

That is weird. Never had anything like that happen before. Which version of Windows is it (XP, 7)?

[Kitsune]

Well I solved it - my raid 1 array de-linked back in April ... so when I cleaned out my computer of dust (... a tedious procedure where I removed from everything from the case), popped back in my drives, win7 was suddenly reading the other drive that had not been written on since April. Funny thing is that win7 would not show both drives - just one or the other. Still no idea why win7 jumped into the future like that though.