I hate my computer!!

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Jun 24th, 2001, 01:46 PM

I hate my computer!!

I lost everything on my hard drive and my last backup was from 6 months ago. :mad:

I just had to tell someone. I'm done now.
Jun 24th, 2001, 01:49 PM
parksie

OK fair enough mate :) Rant accepted ;)

So how did you lose everything?
Jun 24th, 2001, 02:03 PM
chrisjk

I hate my computers!! One of the monitors just blew up, and it's happened before on the same machine. Does anyone think there is a common factor in there somwhere? (e.g. too much love juice from the PC to the monitor...)

Also, they're all temperamental.
Jun 24th, 2001, 02:06 PM
parksie

I broke a 17" and a 15" in the space of a week :D So now I'm on a 14" :(:(

I remember trashing my partition table, and scandisk (DOS) said I had 2GB of lost clusters....... :eek:
Jun 24th, 2001, 02:09 PM
chrisjk

Quote:

Originally posted by parksie
I broke a 17" and a 15" in the space of a week :D So now I'm on a 14"

Ahh, but how did you break them? Did they go bang and smell?! Both these did and on the same machine which makes me sus (e.g ARRRGGHH PIECE OF SH*T-type sus)
Jun 24th, 2001, 02:10 PM

You're not going to believe this, but it looks like I lost everything to a bad network card!!!

My computer's been down all last week, and I've been replacing and swapping all kinds of hardware and nothing helped. Of course, I left the network card in during the whole mess.

Basically, my computer froze and I restarted it to find out that there was nothing at all on the hard drive!

I took the network card out and it looks like it's working okay now. I took out the hard drive and tried it in another pc, that worked..
Jun 24th, 2001, 03:58 PM
Wynd

Quote:

Originally posted by parksie
I remember trashing my partition table, and scandisk (DOS) said I had 2GB of lost clusters....... :eek:

How the hell...?
Jun 24th, 2001, 04:12 PM
parksie

I was trying to install Linux but messed up...luckily the Norton Disk Editor managed to recreate it.
Jun 24th, 2001, 07:19 PM

When i installed linux it went on easy....then I couldnt get into Xwindows, or whateva it is... :(
Jun 24th, 2001, 07:43 PM
Emo

Quote:

Originally posted by parksie
I remember trashing my partition table, and scandisk (DOS) said I had 2GB of lost clusters....... :eek:

When you do that, what does the 2GB become??? Junk space?? :rolleyes: :confused:

-Emo
Jun 24th, 2001, 07:47 PM
parksie

Nope. The FAT was intact (both copies), so by rewriting the partition table all became clear again :) I nearly had a heart attack after that one though.