Why in the world did/do you have to do that?
SF trashed both DVD drives in my system, then failed to remove even with the "cleaner" that the company bregrudgingly provided after several lawsuits. In the end, it became such a mess that it was easier, and far safer, to just wipe the C: drive and do a reinstall.
SF is classed as malware, and rightly so. There are a lot of stories about things it has done to systems, but just based on what I went through, is enough for me to never buy a game that has it again.
Aparently the majority of people that had major problems were like me, with SATA drives, and there is something it does with the drivers that causes them to grind to a halt, and once they slow to a certain point, it can physically damage them. It blocks your ability to burn DVD's so I couldn't archive my data files. It also is reported to act like a virus, and install itself on other machines in a network, even though no one installed a SF "protected" game on the other machines.
I did not know about all this when I bought the game, but I sure learned in a hurry. Even flashing the drives with new firmware didn't bring them back. After upgrading to a new system later on, I take no chances, and research any new game for stuff like this before buying it.
I am not a pirate. I do not, and did not, have any software for ripping protected content on my system, I don't run virtual drives, or any of the other stuff that the company behind Starforce always claims in responding to posts like this on other message boards. I certainly don't appreciate being treated like a pirate, and having my system crippled to prevent me from archiving my own work onto DVD's either. Let alone having my system trashed.
