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hello. I have been working all night on reinstalling XP as it imploded in the middle of the day. yes, reinstalling, which meant formatting my harddrive. I was very angry. all data on my laptop is lost. luckily I had recently made a back-up, so I have all my music, but most of my writing is gone. FUCKKKKKK! |
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why reformat?...that sound drastic... XP is great in my experience and I run several heavy-weight NT/XP servers with no problems whatsoever... |
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youve learned a lesson, from now on, partition your hard drive... |
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somehow a 'hive' -file got corrupt, or was lost.. windows wouldn't run, whatever I tried. so I phoned the helpdesk at Dell and that person said "shit, thats bad, you need to reinstall XP" and there is no way to reinstall XP without formatting. I thought it was drastic too.. :( |
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As do I jand...... I have no problem with it..I do have a backup though.....lol.Don't trust it. I don't fancy it fucking up.....Good luck to you qrter. |
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according to the helpdesk, Microsoft says this can happen in XP and they have no idea how it happens.. |
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thanks, Tone.. seems to be up and running now.. |
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"there is no way to reinstall XP without formatting. "...that guy was feeding you bollocks... And wtf is a hive file?.... but glad you got things back up n running... |
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supposedly ' hives' are the buildingblocks of Windows.. if one goes bad, the whole thing collapses.. well, he could well have fed me bollocks, as I'm not very good at this stuff.. |
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Definately partition your drive so you can format the OS partition whenever it fucks up, but keep your others safe.. its saved me so many times. |
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mm.. sounds like a sound idea, yes.. |
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What the fuck causes OS things to crash? Fucker happened to me a while back. Methinks I'm going to back this shit up next week, I'm getting paranoid. Everytime I boot my cpu up, I'm afraid it won't get past the boot... I'm nervous as hell with this thing. I always expect the worst when it freezes or I see a blue screen. I can't live with this tension. |
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my Windows 2000 professional OS, has YET to crash on me... the reason I only "thought" it did, was because my sound card did not have the proper drivers & so... winamp wouldn't play anything, or rather, there would be no sound, whatsoever. |
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BUY A MAC!!!! |
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my computer is fucked up... I think it's going to explode soon... |
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The only piece of software to crash XP I've found, is Soulseek... And that's only happened twice in over a year....bad crash tho, it reset the machine which if you know how stable XP is, is a very hard thing to do... |
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"somehow a 'hive' -file got corrupt, or was lost.. windows wouldn't run, whatever I tried. so I phoned the helpdesk at Dell and that person said "shit, thats bad, you need to reinstall XP" and there is no way to reinstall XP without formatting. " Utter rubbish. You just got taken for a ride. Basically they wanted to get you off the phone as quickly as possible because every support call costs them money. Your registry (hive shmive) was toast (or part of it was) but I guarantee the filesystem was not damaged at all. You could have put that drive as a slave into another XP/Win2K system and accessed the data just fine. Also, large companies like Dell often don't give you a real operating system CD, just a restore CD that, as you learned, wipes out everything before reinstalling. It's easier that way, and studies indicate people are happy to bend over and let themselves be sodomized. Next time something like that happens, take your PC to a mom and pop shop and have a real tech copy your data out onto a CD or another hard drive--IF your data is worth the effort. |
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^^^^ true true true.... |
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I keep all my important data on seperate drives from the OS. And I really want to avoid winXP but I'm gettting a new comp this week, so I'm kinda screwed, unless I format it immediately... |
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XP aint all that bad... It's kinda cheesy but it does the job well. Saved alot of time using this OS. |
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i love XP, personally |
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once you get rid of all that Fisher Price interface lark, it's not that cheesy... but that style does seem to be popular with newbie computer users for some reason... and yeah, I love XP as well...bought an Epson printer the other day and instantly upon connecting the USB cable, XP went off to the internet, downlaoded the drivers, installed me without me having to do a thing...very smooth indeed... same goes for when my cable modem was installed...it just worked... what more can you ask of an OS?... |
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2k of course, go off with xp spyware shiat, that just help gates (c= |
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Even a telly-tubby could use it.... :D |
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xp has a lot of bugs but it boots up damn fast compared to win2k ;D |
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Surely borrow a bootable drive from someone else, set that as the master an your old drive as slave then copy all your old files to the new one, re-format the old one then move the files back? Jand: re XP: Yep, I used to think it wasn't a "serious" OS because of the kiddy interface, but like you say 99% of new hardware works first time. Great when setting up a new machine to not have to mess around with drivers etc. there are also lots of little improvements that you only notice when going back to 98 and they aren't there. Damn, just spotted fleetmouse said the same thing as me :) |
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yeah well, that would've been a viable option if I knew someone with said bootable drive. anyway, as I said, I know shit about this stuff, so there you go.. :( |
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Grr, sorry they lied to you on the support desk. Ring them up and ask to speak to a supervisor and say you're annoyed at having been lied to just to cut down call time. In future post here before ringing a helpdesk :) |
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When I get my new PC it will have NT5/Win2000 on and nothing else. I also plan on getting an AmigaOne. I won't touch XP but NT5 is the best MS OS IMO. }:> |
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<-- Happy Linux user, XP on the side. |
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thanks.. I would have posted here, but I couldn't even get XP up and running in safe mode.. :( |
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Ceri, qrter has a laptop. Is it then possible to insert another hd as a master drive OR insert his hd as slave in another comp. with a (working) bootable master hd? I wonder... |
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magiker, i don't know much about linux, but is there good linux audio software available? |
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If he could have borrowed an external parallel cable one... hard to come by though and quite small in space. Sorry, I hadn't noticed it was a laptop :( |
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mm..I'm getting partition magic now.. do some hardass partitioning.. |
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that's a good boy:) |
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Ya know qrter, it occurs to me that even if you have separate document partitions, that goddamned Dell recovery CD you have is probably going to blow them away and create one big partition and reformat it again next time this shit happens.... I would be surprised if it didn't. Did the tech have you fdisk and format it yourself or did you just boot with the disk in the C drive and click one or two buttons for the whole shebang? |
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well.. he made me boot with the disk.. it did ask which partition I wanted to use.. could be it then still would format everything.. hope I never find out. just made a seperate partition for music + writing.. |
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One of my lecturers was demonstrating iMovie in a tute the other day and his Mac kept crashing and he had to reboot. It got to the point where he had to talk about something else cause it kept crashing and he couldn't demostrate anything. |
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So soulseek crashes XP? That doesn't sound good.. Im thinking of going XP this weekend. |
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i feel yea i had a major problem with my cdrw and i had to call the company and they sent me a fix, but i would have never known without major research, time and effort :P |
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i heard of implementing windows applications in linux, called LinDos or something. it 'd be great to have the stability of linux os combined with the compatibility of windows proggs! |
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Windows NT and 2000, and I am quite sure it also accounts for XP, have a repair function on the install CD. If you could get a proper install CD maybe repairing the installation would have helped. Qrter, do you have a 'regular' pc in addition to your lappie? If both have network interfaces, you could link them with a crosscable and backup to the other PC. I know this is 'mosterd na de maaltijd'* but maybe its handy to prevent another disaster like this. *translation: Mustard after dinner |
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WIN M.E all the way! |
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