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Sh*t! I lost everything! winXP! |
Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Liberty City
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My PC!  I've had winXP on a hp PC(bought new)since july and when i turn my PC on this afternoon it would'nt turn on,it just froze on the memory test page,stopped at about 6976k when it normally goes much higher than that.As i did'nt know what to do i switched the thing off after about 10-15 minutes of waiting,started it up again and the screen stayed blank,then after trying again the monitor would'nt even switch on but the hard drive did  So out comes the troubleshoot guide,i thought stuff it,it says system restore here so i'll do that as it says i wont lose files and shit,i was just in the middle of this process but before i could click on anything more it did it anyway after giving me a message that it could'nt continue!
After hours of flapping around with it i have had to reinstall the broadband to get back online but i have lost all my themes,wallpapers,thousands of miditones,PC wallpapers,mp3 music,favourites,a few SE ad's and probly every single picture taken with my Sony Ericsson phones I am so pi**ed off! 
Funny thing tho,theme creator pro is still there 
Well i'd like to know what i can do to back up future files in case this microsoft bullshit nightmare happens again! I got some stuff on my web and wap sites but thats only a small amount of stuff i had,at least i still got that stuff tho 
One more thing,i cant set any pics as wallpapers on my PC now,i get some error in a box..........Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!!!
EDIT;So my PC is like it was from new except for the setting wallpaper problem and hp tools dont work either
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Jim
Joined: Jan 20, 2002
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From: Belgium
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Lol thats why i have 2 hd of 120gb the first is daily use the second is backup and some files are on a laptop. I recomment to make backups to avoid such problems use norton ghost
And keep the backups on safe place burn them on dvd rw or use an external hard drive
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Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Liberty City
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Its not funny Jim,but yeah,im still new to PC stuff so i need to learn these things
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artemiy
Joined: Sep 26, 2003
Posts: 265
From: Russian Federation
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If place on your hd/dvd/cd don't allow to backup all what you want and if you have good inet connection just backup links on some files instead of putting themselves, i, for example, always bookmark sites/pages, when i download smthng from 'em. Btw, it will be a good idea to make name of the next microsoft os, after longhorn and blackcomb, Microsoftİ Bullshitİ! :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D
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jellyellie
Joined: Dec 27, 2002
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From: England
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I could, but it would be a waste of a post. Doesn't really contribute to the general discussion so PM was more appropriate.
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gelfen
Joined: Nov 22, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Melbourne, Australia
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gee, you guys are all up late this morning. depending on how much material you need to back up, usb flash mem isn't bad. a network connection to a pc is also useful, and the flashmem comes in handy for transferring if the network connection fails (as happened over the weekend when my father tried to upgrade from Win98SE to Win2000). i found it to be more efficient than using a CD/DVD-R/RW.
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Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Liberty City
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Anyone know what this pop up message means;
Insert CDROM
Please insert your CDROM with the Virtual Truck program.Looking for file:
D:/installs/TeraEth/VTruck.exe
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gelfen
Joined: Nov 22, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Melbourne, Australia
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probably exactly what it says. do you know what program it's referring to, and what that program does?
perhaps you should condsider a full system scan with your antivrus program (after you update the definitions).
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Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Liberty City
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I'm getting this too
when i try to use hp help and support or is it microsofts help and support!
I've got NO notepad,paint or stuff like that,this is getting worse guys,do i need to install the winXP disk i shudda got with the PC when i bought it?
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stuff it! i'm going bed!
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gelfen
Joined: Nov 22, 2003
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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mcafee, and most other AV software, will stop programs writing to system files. whenever you do a software install, and sometimes a repair through windows, you need to disable the AV software first. however, there is usually an option to continue regardless (depending on your AV settings).
run a system scan with mcafee before you continue, because it may pick up some other problems. you may also need to reinstall XP.
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Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Liberty City
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I already did a mcafee virus scan and no files were infected but i did quarantine some adware and newdotnet stuff.
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judge
Joined: May 21, 2003
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From: Romania
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Boyi, I'm not trying to sound condescendent over here, but XP failure and data loss are different things. Obviously those may occur simultaneously, but not often. The idea is that you shouldn't have lost any files unless you had a HDD failure or a virus as gelfen pointed out. And with the errors you described during POST, the situation may be more serious than you think. Try to run a system test to check that all components are within operating parameters. Also, avoid using System Restore unless...
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Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
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From: Liberty City
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Thats tough luck from orangeman. Looks like im u again boyi:-D
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senninha
Joined: Jan 05, 2003
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if there's one thing i've learned in all my years, it's that windows sucks big time! xp included! my 1st major crash with xp was one where i thought latop's my hard drive failed. i took it to the toshiba service centre expecting to have the hard drive replaced under warranty.
turned out it was massive data corruption by windows xp. fortunately, they were able to make the system bootable just so i could back up my data before doing a complete restoration of the HDD to its original state. needless to say, xp did the same thing again a month ago, but this time i was prepared for it.
my advice to you is:
1. always keep your data on a separate disk partition from the OS in case of crashes and the need to reformat. never trust windows (or any OS i suppose) with leaving your data vulnerable to it's schizophrenic antics
2. backup your data regularly. i have a separate desktop pc with dual hard drives that is not allowed to be used for anything else but data backups. i do backups weekly to both drives, thus i have all my data in triplicate. has windows made me paranoid or what?!?! 
if you set up a little home network for your pc's, doing backups, even with huge GB's of data doesn't take too much time at all.
good luck, and never fully trust windows!!!!
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Dj Boyi
Joined: Oct 05, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Liberty City
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Just thought i'd better mention this,the night before this happened i was turning off the computer and a message popped up saying,
'other people are using this computer,are you sure you want to switch off,they will lose any programs or data being used',
something to that effect anyway.
And although it looks like i have notepad,paint etc,when i click on them,nothing happens!
Can i just reinstall winxp to fix this? Anyone?
Also,when i switch off my PC,when i turn it back on some of the settings are reset,pointer speed is one of them although the theme stays the same,man this is depressing,and it would have to happen at xmas
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In fact i just noticed that if i save anything,bookmarks,favourites,whatever,after swithing my PC off and on again,THEY ARE NOT THERE ANYMORE! AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGH!!
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