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nightlith

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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 06:59 Post subject: #$!$##! Argh!	Quick Quote Quote

Dammit all to hell. Fuck microsoft and windows and shit! It's that time of year for a complete format. This time I was ready! Had my drives partitioned so that drive C was simply the OS and Program files, so no need to do heavy backups on my docs and shit. Made sure to backup emails and some other essential files....except FAVORITES!! FUCK!! Years of websearching fucking gone Then to add insult to injury, the windows intaller FUCKs up and nearly formats my 160gb data drive. I made EXPLICITLY sure I chose the small 10 gb C: in the partition screen, but every time I chose it, it would list it as if I chose the the other drive. Finally fix it by running a dos boot of partition magic. Finally get windows installed only to have chkdsk FUCK UP my data drive anyway. Recovering orphaned files MY ASS! I run an exe only to be told I just tried to run some ambigious dll in another folder! ARGH! !#$!%@!#%

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SycoShaman
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 07:11 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Sorry but I had to laugh cuz Ive had shit like that happen to me so many fuckin times... One time i had some serious problem, cant remember what it was now, but I phoned my comp manufacturer, they told me to phone microshit, I phoned them, they told me to phone my comp manufacturer and speak with a senior tech, called my comp manufacturer, asked for a senior tech, after waiting for an hour i got a hold of one, he tells me to phone microshit, i phone microshit, ask for a microshit senior tech guy, puts me on hold for an hour as it was a "Level 3" problem and he was only level 2...so i had to wait for a senior, senior tech (??) and finally got the problem solved...emailed me a website where i could download the windows boot 6 disk essential files and shit....anyway, solved the problem...but i lost alot of data....and these ppl get good money for this shit...always remember that. Ive cursed those ppl out nuff times, u should try it, might help relieve the frustration and anger.... But thats life man....knocks ya down and keeps kicking and kicking and kicking and kicking....

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Phluxed
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 07:32 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Partition is your best friend. One for windows, one for all your essential files and music and such. I also make bi-monthly windows drive images, meaninging i can restore to a fully working machine in like 2 hrs.

SycoShaman
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 07:40 Post subject:

Phluxed wrote:

Partition is your best friend. One for windows, one for all your essential files and music and such. I also make bi-monthly windows drive images, meaninging i can restore to a fully working machine in like 2 hrs.

U make an image of all ur files and windows and everything? How fuckin big is that file? 50 gigs? ...wait, wouldnt it be the entire size of ur drive....? how the hell is that possible? Laughing

can u give me a link which explains this? seems very logical and Im a backup freak, I back everything up...my current method is hd's and rw dvd's most with a few dvdr +/- dual layers

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Rofl_Mao

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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 12:57 Post subject: Re: #$!$##! Argh!

nightlith wrote:

Made sure to backup emails and some other essential files....except FAVORITES!! FUCK!! Years of websearching fucking gone Sad

Thanks for the tip, I'm reinstalling Windows XP this weekend. My Windows is now FUBAR after two years of intensive usage; explorer.exe is buggy and games keep crashing to the desktop.

SycoShaman wrote:

Phluxed wrote:

U make an image of all ur files and windows and everything? How fuckin big is that file? 50 gigs? ...wait, wouldnt it be the entire size of ur drive....? how the hell is that possible? Laughing

can u give me a link which explains this? seems very logical and Im a backup freak, I back everything up...my current method is hd's and rw dvd's most with a few dvdr +/- dual layers

Acronis True Image? http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/?type=true+image9

Better get a tape recorder, complete images will be gigantic.

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MaroW

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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 14:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

he meant the c: partition.. the one that only holds windows, programs etc... you dont need to format the other partition with all your personal files, movies, mp3s... just defrag it from time to time... so he has the c: partition backed up and can restore a clean system if he messed up anything in the time after the backup i personally have it like that too... but i only backup my pics, writings etc to a 80g external drive and put it to a save place... if i compare losing personal stuff like my pictures comared to some movies(which i can redownload anyway) theres only 1 choice... personal data in a safe place... ive lost alot of pics and some lyrics before... i was close to beating the whole machine to pieces... so remember kids backups can save your day... some day...

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nightlith

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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2005 16:42 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

right. like I said that's what I have. a c: (boot) partition that's 10gb and a d: (data) partition that's 150gb (160gb total - minus a few gigs for formatting and bs). Normally this isn't a problem, but something went wrong with my partitions and for some reason during windows setup when I selected delete partition on the c: (10gb) drive it picked the data drive instead. It was also grossly misrepresenting the size. Said my 150gb partition was only 130gb and was an unknown filesystem (it was an NTFS volume on a primary - not logical - partition) As soon as the "formatting 130gb" screen popped up I was like "WTF!! OH SHIT!" and immediatly turned off the pc. Had to run Partition magic to fix the partition tables, and finally got the installer to pick C: instead of D: (keep in mind I was selecting c: all this time). Of course during install it ran chkdsk on the d: drive (not sure why since I was installing to C and the format manage to 0 out a bunch of file entries before I could stop it. So now a ton of crap was reindexed and ended up corrupting anyway Bah! i can has computar?!

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SycoShaman
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Posted: Sat, 1st Oct 2005 02:09 Post subject: Re: #$!$##! Argh!

Rofl_Mao wrote:

nightlith wrote:

Made sure to backup emails and some other essential files....except FAVORITES!! FUCK!! Years of websearching fucking gone Sad

Thanks for the tip, I'm reinstalling Windows XP this weekend. My Windows is now FUBAR after two years of intensive usage; explorer.exe is buggy and games keep crashing to the desktop.

SycoShaman wrote:

Phluxed wrote:

U make an image of all ur files and windows and everything? How fuckin big is that file? 50 gigs? ...wait, wouldnt it be the entire size of ur drive....? how the hell is that possible? Laughing

can u give me a link which explains this? seems very logical and Im a backup freak, I back everything up...my current method is hd's and rw dvd's most with a few dvdr +/- dual layers

Acronis True Image? http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/?type=true+image9

Better get a tape recorder, complete images will be gigantic.

tape recorder? I know u mean some kinda external pc device that uses tapes as storage, but where do I get one of those? u have any links or some shit that explains tape recorders?

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