Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Lead Head on 17 December 2005, 03:00
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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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OS/2 should have prevailed...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And i was useing maxtor hd :)
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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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It's a shitty feature included with scandisk that does absolutely nothing...
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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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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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it was during a storm when the power "bliped" my house has a 200 or more AMP service
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If a power blip ruins your computer, then, games be damned, you need to install a different operating system.
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the power blip was months before it died
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That can happen even without there ever having to be a failure. Way back in the days of win 95 I had lots of files (pics, movies, small games etc) and I turned the computer off for the night. Next day all of these files were gone. No explanation whatsoever, no failure of any kind, nothing. Word was gone too. There was no software that erased files when shutting down so I don
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Undiscovered virus?
Microsoft discovered you are not using MSN 9?
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wtf 9, MSN kept firing up upon boot even if i set it not to and it said the latest version was msn 7.5
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Actually, back when I was a Win98 guru, I turned on my computer one day to find that for some unknown reason, the registry had deleted itself. No recovery of any kind was possible, because we didn't have cd burners back then, and my zip drive required a software driver which wouldn't work in emergency DOS.
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wtf 9, MSN kept firing up upon boot even if i set it not to and it said the latest version was msn 7.5
The latest version of MSN explorer is 9.
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he's talking about the IM
who the fuck uses MSN explorer...
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The latest version of MSN explorer is 9.
The three people who use MSN Explorer will be glad to know that.
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The three people who use MSN Explorer will be glad to know that.
lol
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OS/2 should have prevailed...
Fuck that, BeOS owned OS/2 and Windows 3.x by far.
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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.
TAR does the same thing. Useful for packing source code.
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Except with TAR, you can get the files out again after it's finished.
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Except with TAR, you can get the files out again after it's finished.
True, but holy smokes, look at that scandisk compression ratio.... like a million to one...
:)
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True, but holy smokes, look at that scandisk compression ratio.... like a million to one...
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That's nothing; you get better ratios assigning backups to /dev/null.
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and a better chance of getting it back
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and a better chance of getting it back
Try moving all your files to the bitbucket and resurrecting them.
Let me know how that goes. :D
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Except with TAR, you can get the files out again after it's finished.
Not like you'll be able to read anything, though. I mean, all of your work will be covered in a black substance.