hey

[j!mmY]

i baught a new harddrive a 250gb and i installed it and all and for some reason i installed aa and bf2 and when i try to play it says global hardware banned still so wat did i do wrong i took out my old one and all...

[scruie]

Hardware bans are based off more than just the hard-drive; they include network cards. Therefore you should spoof the network cards asewll as the hdd.

Best to RAID the hdd and then read the many threads about hardware bans that can be found in the Battlefield2, Americas Army and CoD2 sections

[T0m]

yup.

Its a Hardware ban, not a harddrive ban.

http://www.mpcforum.com/showthread.php?t=126034

here is a very usefull thread about getting rid of HW bans.

i also suggets spoofing/changing you MAC adress.

http://www.mpcforum.com/showthread.php?t=104160

[HottSauce]

yes, i was scrolling down the topic and i was getting excited that i would be the first to tell u that it was the mac address... but no... tomhad to ruin it, but you can spoof it especially if your running through a router, to get to the router command panel go to

start -> run -> cmd -> ipconfig {enter}

get your defualt gateway (probably look something like this "165.192.254.254") and type it in your web browser, and find the tab or link that says "MAC address" and there u go :)