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Microsoft must die!
« on: 17 December 2005, 03:00 »
I am extremely mad at microsoft right now!

I had about 50GB worth of data on my winXP hd. I restart. Everything is gone. Windows wont boot. I installed win2k on another HD put it this machine and fired it up. Windows 2k found about 17million file structure errors. i checked the HD from 2k. all my data was gone. there are bits and fragements of the OS, but other than that. windows XP performed a virtual format when i did a restart
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #1 on: 17 December 2005, 03:05 »
OS/2 should have prevailed...
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #2 on: 17 December 2005, 04:05 »
From what I've head of OS/2 it was just slighly screwed. This I have heard from -Mac- users/obssesive fanboys.
Lead Head, that just sucks, I hope there wasn't any importaint data lost. Next time mabey install the OS on a seperate hard drive from the data.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #3 on: 17 December 2005, 04:24 »
OS/2 is pretty screwed. After windows 3.1, it pretty much died out. It is also is now slowly being released from the icy grip of IBM.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #4 on: 17 December 2005, 04:30 »
Quote from: Dark_Me
From what I've head of OS/2 it was just slighly screwed. This I have heard from -Mac- users/obssesive fanboys.
Lead Head, that just sucks, I hope there wasn't any importaint data lost. Next time mabey install the OS on a seperate hard drive from the data.

all my pictures, games everything----gone. and whats left is just chunks of destroyed OS files. and some of my games played from the HD and didnt need the discs, and i have lost some of the discs. my precious ut2004 and farcry---gone!
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #5 on: 17 December 2005, 04:44 »
I don't think this is a Windows problem.  A toasted hard drive could be to blame, or a really scary bolt of lightning flashed through your machine.  Windows perhaps reacted poorly to this problem, but I don't think it caused it.

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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #6 on: 17 December 2005, 04:48 »
i did about 7 checks with the seagate diagnostics tool, no problems what so ever, its a seagate HD also. everything is fine. No bolt of lightnig no anything. the only thing that happend was the power went out about 3 months ago then came back on abould a half sec later
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #7 on: 17 December 2005, 11:06 »
yup same thing happened to me
2 moths before :! :(
there was a quick power outage
then the power came back after 2 secs
just before i swich the sistem off
and BANG!
my C: drive was GONE
:) so that is why i now have 4 drives :)

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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #8 on: 17 December 2005, 11:11 »
And i was useing maxtor hd :)

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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #9 on: 17 December 2005, 14:49 »
xp did the same to me. you know the scandick at startup. well it ran and instead of asking me weather i want it to make changes,  it just did them. do when it says "The directory C:/dickuments and settings/noob has serious errors. Convert folder to file?" and it just selects yes and turns 30 gig, including all my college work into a 3k file, i get pretty pissed off. why would you want to convert a folder into a file? they are totally different.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #10 on: 17 December 2005, 15:55 »
It's a shitty feature included with scandisk that does absolutely nothing...
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #11 on: 17 December 2005, 16:27 »
i just insstalled partition majic on 2000, i checked my XP harddrive. 66GB of the is unallocated, like XP upon reboot formatted a huge chunk of the HD
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #12 on: 17 December 2005, 21:47 »
Linux has never wiped my hdd like that, and the power in my room is very unstable due to the amount of things i have plugged in - power turns off for about half a sec several times a day.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #13 on: 17 December 2005, 21:59 »
it was during a storm when the power "bliped" my house has a 200 or more AMP service
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #14 on: 20 December 2005, 00:42 »
If a power blip ruins your computer, then, games be damned, you need to install a different operating system.