GBPVR re-installed itself after moving to a new HDD?

[h00ch]

Last night I used Seagate DiskWizard to image my HDD that I had Windows XP & GBPVR installed on and copied the image over to a new larger HDD. Everything remained intact and Windows started as normal as if nothing happened, but when GBPVR was started, it asked for the original MSI file because it needed to re-install itself. I found this quite strange since, like I said, everything else didn't even "notice" I switched to a new drive. Is GBPVR too smart and even knows that it secretly got moved to a different HDD? After downloading the install file and letting it do it's thing everything was fine, I'm just asking out of curiosity.

[scb147]

GBPVR also seems to re-install itself when you update the Enhanced Web Admin... I installed 1.1.5 on Sunday and then copied over the latest EWA (Build 72), and when I entered config, GBPVR reinstalled itself.

It's weird, but doesn't seem to break anything, like you said.

[martint123]

It's the Windows installer that does it. If it finds certain things missing with will do an automagic repair - very spooky when it happens.

[scb147]

heh, I guess it looks at file sizes too then. I can't imagine copying over a new version of EWA into the web folder would delete any files, only update them...

[fluffykeith]

YEP I've had that - very annoying as it doesn't fix anything but tries to reinstall every time.

[HtV]

GBPVR also seems to re-install itself when you update the Enhanced Web Admin... I installed 1.1.5 on Sunday and then copied over the latest EWA (Build 72), and when I entered config, GBPVR reinstalled itself.

It's weird, but doesn't seem to break anything, like you said.

Did you follow the instructions by UncleJohnsBand?

• If you have not yet configured GBPVR to run the web admin you will need to follow and complete the instructions in the Configuration section (above this section).
  
• Download a copy from a link above
  
• Stop the Recording Service
  
• Delete all contents and directories in the gbpvr\web folder ([B]except[/B] for the bin directory…removing this will cause GBPVR to reinstall the default Web Admin)
  
• Delete only the AjaxPro2.dll, eWorld.UI.dll, Rss.dll, Rss.pdb and Rss.Net.dll files from the gbpvr\web\bin directory
  
• If a gbweb.dll file exists in the gbpvr\web\bin directory it should be deleted
  
• Extract the zip into your gbpvr folder using the option to use directory names. This will load all the files into your gbpvr\web directory and subdirectories.
  
• Restart the Recording Service
  
• Hit Refresh in your Web Browser (important to reload cached files that might have changed)

[scb147]

Did you follow the instructions by UncleJohnsBand?

maybe, maybe not :o

So that probably explains why it happens to me when I update EWA...

All I have to do is RTFMS

[GoodGuys]

I got this to happen to me recently too. Only I don't allow it to finish the install process because a couple of times in the past that this happened to me, I let it complete the reinstall and all my recordings went away...

GGF

[h00ch]

All my recordings went away too, but that was fixed easily enough by importing them.

[dfdario]

Happened to me too!
My hard drive where recordings were stored to suddenly disappeared. After a reboot GBPVR reinstalled itself with no reason. After a subsequent reboot the hard drive reappeared but all recordings were missed from GBPVR database.
Now I'm trying to restore previous content but it will take ma a long time.