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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
I'm sorry, but I have to bow out. A catastrophy hit my computer while I was upgrading my Windows 2000 to Windows XP; during the installation, something happened to my computer, that had effectively screwed up my computer; whenever I tried to continue the upgrade to Windows XP, or just boot up Windows 2000, a blue screen of death poped up, screaming Unmountable Boot Volume or something like that, and would not let me access my own computer. Booting in Safe mode did not help, nor did booting in any other advanced startup modes.
In the end, I was forced to format my hard disk and install XP from scratch. Seeing as how I had upgraded 2000 to XP without any errors in the past, I had assumed that this time would be no different, and did not make any backups of anything.
Everything I had is gone: My MP3 collection is gone, all my textures are gone, all my models are gone, everything I had created and stored and did not upload to the web is gone.
I'm sorry for any inconvience I now have caused this project.
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December 13th, 2004, 05:33 AM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
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I'm sorry for any inconvience I now have caused this project.
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You're sorry? Why? It isn't your fault. We blame Billy for this awful event.
I hope you can recover in a reasonable amount of time. My condolance. 
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December 13th, 2004, 04:43 PM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
If you ask me, going from 2000 to XP is a downgrade.
XP has given me more headaches than its newer friendlier disguise has ever helped me.
Reaaaaallllly sorry for you man... I feel your pain. Losing all your work is the worst thing about being dependent on computers. Time and effort can't ever be replaced.
Really, really sorry TC.
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December 13th, 2004, 04:49 PM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
No, not the curse again!
That reminds me that I should back up all my graphics directories again. I'm still grieving for my losses almost 2 years later.
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December 13th, 2004, 07:23 PM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
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TerranC said:
I'm sorry, but I have to bow out. A catastrophy hit my computer while I was upgrading my Windows 2000 to Windows XP; during the installation, something happened to my computer, that had effectively screwed up my computer; whenever I tried to continue the upgrade to Windows XP, or just boot up Windows 2000, a blue screen of death poped up, screaming Unmountable Boot Volume or something like that, and would not let me access my own computer. Booting in Safe mode did not help, nor did booting in any other advanced startup modes.
In the end, I was forced to format my hard disk and install XP from scratch. Seeing as how I had upgraded 2000 to XP without any errors in the past, I had assumed that this time would be no different, and did not make any backups of anything.
Everything I had is gone: My MP3 collection is gone, all my textures are gone, all my models are gone, everything I had created and stored and did not upload to the web is gone.
I'm sorry for any inconvience I now have caused this project.
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Before you get too far... I suggest reformatting again, and creating 2 partitions. Make one of them 6 GB, call it C. Make the other the rest of the drive, call it D or something. Install ONLY Windoze on the C drive. Install everything else on D, and save all files on D. When Windoze fails in the future, all you have to do is reformat the C partition and reinstall Windoze. All data will still be there on the D partition.
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December 13th, 2004, 10:27 PM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
You should still do hard data back ups just to be extra safe. You never know when its your hard drive and not XP.
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December 15th, 2004, 09:45 PM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
I feel for ya, TerranC... I was back home Last week and was absolutely ecstatic to find that I still had loads of artwork from SE4, as well as about 500 pages worth of stories and such that I had written over the years. I burned all of onto a CD, brought it home, and found that nothing had actually been burnt onto the CD -it was still blank. I hadn't bothered to check because I was in a big hurry to get about 13 CDs of stuff burned before I had to go to the airport (and if you're wondering, NONE of them worked). To make matters worse, I'd agreed to delete the stuff off my parent's computer since it was taking up so much space.
Anyway, as for the main topic of this post, I'd be interested it popping in a model if I can find the time. Right now I'm just trying to provide Aaron with a reasonably constant stream of new component pics, and frankly doing a rather lousey job of it at the moment (sorry!).
But if I get stuck for ideas on components, I might throw in a Battleship or something...
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December 15th, 2004, 10:53 PM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
It's all gone?
/me is very glad he recently backed up his hard drive...And is going to check ALL the cd's...
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December 16th, 2004, 06:14 AM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
Okay, back to the matter at hand again.
How's our ragtag fleet doing? How far are we and which designs are still missing?
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December 16th, 2004, 07:48 AM
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Re: For 5hit5 and giggles
Will the rag-tag fleet use the old ships or the new series ones (if they exist). Just joking  |
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