I recently cranked up mercs, and discoverd that my clan and inner sphere packs are not active. So i reinstalled them.
still nothing. So i completely remove the whole of mechwarrior reboot and reinstall. They arent showing up. has anyone had this issue before? looking like another format on the horizon.

Too late............. you need the pack repair tools. Look in this thread.

You need the safecast patches from the FASA website...
C-Dilla is evil...

*Looks up at Thy*

Thanks guys. Now do install the packs and then the fix's, or the reverse? A better question is how do i use these?

Well, if the packs are not installed, I'd install them first, then run the patches. To run the patches, just run them like any other program and follow the directions.

Ok, got it fixed. going to finish installing everything else. thanks doods.

You know the only prob I have ever had here is once (the first time) spybot removed Cdilla. Figured out the issue, copied Cdilla back where it goes.
no more problems.

I got lucky the first time I ran SpyBot. I looked through the list of stuff it had found, and noticed Cdilla. Now, I knew I needed that for the Mech Packs, so I told SpyBot to ignore that one from now on. Been trouble free since.

Could you tell me where it is so i can back it up? Im still trying to figure out how mine got removed. Guessing it was either adaware or driver cleaner.

For my install, C-dilla is a hidden folder in the root directory of drive C: Hope that helps...