ROYALLY FKN PIST OFF
Monday, 5. January 2009, 23:46:09
just had to do a complete reinstall of my fkn computer again, and lost EVERY FKN THING i had on it...had no warning no nothing, was in the middle of posting something here earlier today and boom...no fkn computer.
everything that i have taken pictures of or videos of over the course of the year are now GONE GONE GONE...fkn computer
everything that i have taken pictures of or videos of over the course of the year are now GONE GONE GONE...fkn computer
WIDGETIZE
Phantom # 6. January 2009, 00:02
Kimberly # 6. January 2009, 03:00
YanLú # 6. January 2009, 21:10
So it's like all info in my PC is for the rest of my family, only. Good that you are back "on-line"!
See you later, Alligater...after a while, Crocodile.
Kimberly # 7. January 2009, 01:57
scott cumming # 8. January 2009, 21:31
my final solution was to buy a 500 gigabite external drive. every now and then i save whole folders over there so i can just restore the os and start again fresh.
it's funny though... it's almost a year and i haven't crashed. but i do have all the protections and clean-up programs.... that may be why.
Encee # 8. January 2009, 22:09
My old one used Win XP and my laptop uses Win XP, so transferring was smooth, whereas my real back-up desktop uses Win 98. I was trying to move from XP to both the Win Vista one and the Win 98 one. CRASH! Lost everything that was being transferred. I'm still trying to re-create the Win XP stuff and to put it on both the laptop and the Win 98 desktop as double back-up.
Mirror it! If it worked, OK. But......?
I really empathize with you!
Can I be of any help?
Encee
Phantom # 9. January 2009, 01:22
I've never had a crash with linux and for $10 you can get an OS that's light and trouble free. Trash the Windows and don't look back.
Encee # 10. January 2009, 16:42
I like Ubuntu for its looks and ease and price: zero, NADA!
I have used it for a long time, but can't break away from Win XP totally and get screwed just about quarterly.
Back-up on external hard drive or cheaper thumb drives!
I'm learning not to trust anything anymore.
Encee
SummerAngel # 11. January 2009, 06:15
Kimberly # 18. January 2009, 22:10
I also lost an external h/d as well. that crashed on me in November.
I lost EVERYTHING that i had backed up onto it
Deke # 18. January 2009, 23:23
I now hae everything backed up onto a 2nd drive inside my computer, and that occasionally gets backed up onto an external drive. I do it by hand, I don't trust the auto-backup programs not to screw up and not tell me about it...
I'd echo the Linux sentiments. Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, and Debian are all pretty good in their own way. Ubuntu's OK, but I like the Linux Format Magazine Ubuntu because it has a choice of desktops. Your best bet would be to go to distrowatch.com and choose the features that appeal to you. You get a choice of paid-for and free distributions so you can decide if the extra services are worth paying for, and if you want you get to choose the nationality of the versions you choose from! PCLinuxOS is programmed in Canada, so if you feel the need to shout at a programmer you get one who can understand you...
Kimberly # 24. January 2009, 16:44
take a look at my newest post, u will get a laugh out of it. i posted it last night before i read your comment today.
dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsı # 5. February 2009, 11:23
But, we gave it to our friend who is pretty much a pc expert, and he fiddled with the computer left right and center. At first, he got back stuff that we had back ups for on our other computers, which was like totally unnecessary. As we gave him the computer, and it was a reasonably expensive one at the time, he really got right down into it and managed to retrieve all my lost data. I have it all and I am so relieved. We all work on I-mac's now. Pc's are always giving problems, and macs are so easy to work with, once you get used to the different way it works, much simpler and they have the added benefit that they are rarely attacked by viruses and stuff. I have virus check ups on a weekly basis and so far, zilch! On the pc, I always had viruses, nothing major, bugs, worms and spy ware always attaching itself to my hard drives... drove me nuts! I
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