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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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You know those "fever dreams" that you get that keep going round and round and round. And you never get decent sleep and alwasy wake sweating?
I am in the middle of one of those.
I am now on my second "format c:" in two days.
It started well. I was really happy. A little happy bunny when, on Tuesday, I upgraded various machines, including the one I'm typing on now to XP Professional. It took a while. A couple of hours for the install, a couple more for the updates.
I upgraded them all to Office Professional for XP too. Lovely. Really happy. Two of them are still working. One is busy formatting.
Yesterday morning it went into a death spiral. Screen powered down, disk powered up. So I gave it the three fingered salute... to no avail. Reset. Same again. Safe Mode. Same again. Safe mode. Same again. Forgot safe mode. It booted, stabilised, crashed. Safe mode worked. Safe mode crashed.
I forced it, somehow, through repeated Safe Mode boots into life, and got the last remaining data off it. It's on the D drive.
Booted from diskette.
Format c:
Tried to boot from the XP Cd.
Not bootable.
Swore.
Booted from the boot diskette. Ran setup.exe on the cd. The drive whizzed and the screen said "This may not be run in DOS!". Well excuse me!. So I panicked.
Then I had a brianwave. Reinstalled minimum featured Win98, and then ran a total install of XP. Good move. Swapped the D driev to NTFS and was content. The machine booted and stabilised and RAN.
Windows Update failed. And failed. And failed.
There are screeds written on why this happens. Inmy case the date on the mcahine had been set to 2011, and that meant the M$'s security certificates looked as though they'd expired. So it refused. Now these updates are needed.
No other software on the machine so I started to install them. An hour later the machine went into the death spiral again. (thei si the abridged version). I have now created 6 diskettes which are alleged to boot straight onto XP and will try those after the format finishes.
I had an interlude with my c drive, too. I booted with tyhe 6 horsemen of the appocalypse before. They offered me the chance to NTFS my c drive. So I did. When the install crashed (!) I found I could no longer format my c drive. So I had to break it with fdisk first.
In the middle so all this I am very happy to announce that IO am sending a battalion of gnomes to be forcibly inserted in Bill Gates. I'll format the bastard!
Oh, and Just Hit Send has a new chapter up!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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...unfortunately, we cannot live without them, huh??
sorry for all the computer-headaches, timmy.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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The NTFS disk I coudl see last time round? Before it broke? The one with my data on it?
THIS time round it says it is corrupt! I gave up at 1am. I am so pissed off at this. I cannto see 35Gb of data. I may not be able to recover it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Don't know much about computers- but I've tried upgrading my Win98 to XP before as well.
And yeah- it did hang from time to time leading to a total crash of the C drive. In my case, I talked with someone familiar with computers and he said that my hard drive couldn't support XP 'cause it didn't have enough memory. Well, it did, but left very little space for other programs running when I was using Win98. Plus, he said it affects the RAM too. He suggested I upgrade my PC's memory or stick to Win98.
I'm not really sure what's wrong with your PC (or XP CD) Timmy. Try to check the system requirements of XP and your hardware's memory. Or maybe the copy of your XP CD is defective or something.
In our school, we use iMacs.
Thay rarely crash and have really huge memory.
--- at a REALLY HUGE price.
That's all I can say. :-/
Sorry I couldn't be of much help.
And what?!!!
A boot-up disk that doesn't run in DOS?!!! What the f*** is that?
And what exactly is Bill Gates' definition of "corrupt" anyway?!!!  ??
"The worst way of missing someone is to be sitting right next to them knowing you can't have them." To Stephen Tsang, wherever you are.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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OK, I found and downloaded a utility that is intended and designed to recover broken NTFS disks. And I ran it. 2 hours later it showed me a load of sort of filenames that it sort of could sort of see.. So I asked ot to recover them.
a) Not a chance
b) There are thousands of them
c) Nothing in them is recognisable anyway
d) There is no option "d"
e) I think I have to reconcile myself to everything being gone
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Guest
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On fire! |
Registered: March 2012
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XP is known to have quite a few 'bugs' in its system and Microsoft is apparently still 'ironing' them out. I refuse to install it until they do. NT is stable, solid, reliable as is 2000.
I know this is useless information to you now, but thought I would pass it along anyway!
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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I think I know what it is, now.
Overnet.
Each time it crashed, and it crashed again this morning, Overnet was on the screen.
So, I have KILLED overnet off.
But I have had to reformat my C: drive AGAIN
Now this is also weird. D: has become F:. I had the wit to unplug it while I was reformatting in case it went pop again.
What went wrong? hal.dll became corrupt and ntfs.sys went walkabout and stopped me dead in the water.. Better yet the alleged "recovery console" would not boot, Safe Mode failed. And M$ support site was useless.
Bend over, Gates. Here comes a large garden ornament
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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robert bryce
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Registered: January 1970
Messages: 414
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Hi Timmy--I thought Bill Gates was a Britt........rob..;-D
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