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CaptainCox
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 Posted: Tue, 10th Feb 2009 21:00 Post subject: Murphy's law and my PC :( |
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For you ppl that don't know what Murphy's law is...read this 1st  .
LINK
But to make it simple it basically means | Quote: | | Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. |
So here is my story...
In front of a PC far far away...
Not sure what I installed or why this happened, but AVG did not pick it up...that's for sure.
Anyhow, I noticed that my CPU was running 100% and counting..., went in to "task manager" to check out WTF was causing this, and "Logitech updater" was running over 100 instances...obviously taking A LOT! of memory/power...So I thought, "No problem I have a back up image from Acronis, I will be up and running in no time".
Said and done, I rebooted my PC and flicked in my Acronis boot DVD.
Set it to "Restore using Image" etc etc. and just waited for it to finish...
Half way through I get "Image corrupt"...and I go NO WAY!.
Reboot and try with the Acronis boot up DVD...SAME F'n THING! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
So there I am, a Hard Disc being FUKED by a corrupt image (the old data wiped out by a fuked image) and basically no backups of NOTHING!
To make a long story short, I had to install Vista x64 again and "painfully" fix all my settings in FF including all the bookmarks and what have you... I am almost back to where I was when this crap happened, but still...I F'n HATE THIS! .
Still...stiff upper lip and all that, you better belive it  .
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WaldoJ
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Feb 2009 21:24 Post subject: |
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more than one back up dvd is awesome. I always make two. One in a safe place, one out in the open.
But good to hear it's workin out. last thing you'd want is your hard drive going topsy turvy and blowing up in fumes.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Feb 2009 21:28 Post subject: |
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Cheers man. It ain't that much of a pain, but...actually it "was"  . I am not a stable person when it comes to my PC being totally "retarded" for even 24 hours...makes me totally nervous and absolutely mad and "out of control for the duration it takes to fix it". I guess I am 100% addicted to this dam machine of mine .
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Feb 2009 21:38 Post subject: |
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i usually make a rar out of my documents once a couple of weeks or so , make a copy out of bookmarks and stuff like that , and send them to a special partiton for kit's , documents and important stuff , just in case some weird shit happens i syncronize my files (documents , kits , music , etc ) on my laptop once a month or so . chances are slim that both will fail me at the same time ..but you never know
A couple of months back i tried to swap 2 partitions (turn a logical one to a bootable one) using gparted and the whole thing backfired .The fucker rewrote the partition table for everything and deleted all the data from both harddrives .. i managed to recover some of it , but the personal stuff i colected the last 3 months before that was gone , and as luck would have it i was too lazy to keep updating my files .
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Feb 2009 22:13 Post subject: |
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And you're happy with the answer 'the dvd was corrupt'? DVDs don't just go bad and I suspect that it's acronis being a dick. Just to test it out, I would make another image and try to backup the computer from that and see what happens. It's a fresh install so you wouldn't lose much. Or maybe there is a way in acronis to test the integrity of the image without actually restoring from it?
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