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Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: NFG on September 12, 2003, 12:01:14 AM

Well happy day. Running symantec's Welchia Squelcher fucked Zumi's little mebius royally. XP wouldn't boot past this screen (http://nfg.2y.net/temp/stuck.jpg) no matter what. Safe mode, safe mode VGA, safe mode w/networking, command prompt... Nothing worked. Got some neat new tools that showed the system was running and on the LAN, with the virus still active no less. I could access the shared drives, but the roots of C and D weren't shared, so there was nothing to gain there.

Installed XPPro, which ran nicely to my surprise, but Zumi didn't like her OS in English, so I kept beating on it to get her old OS working. One USB CD drive later and countless boot discs ... Here's fun: Make a boot floppy and use Nero to make a bootable CD with that floppy. Woo, 1.44MB on a CD just to get a DOS prompt - and the windows install failed after 5 mins anyway.

The recovery CD that came with the system had two options: Repave or quit. That's right, delete everything or cancel the recovery. Hey, thanks Sharp!

So I backed up Zumi's email, favourites, and pictures, and repaved the drive.

Total time FUCKING WASTED: 24 hours.

Total gratitude expressed by Zumi so far: None.

Mood: Unpleasant.

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: Haohmaru on September 12, 2003, 12:16:29 AM

Just reading about experiences like that dulls my mood. I'd like to hear about what the problem turned out to be if you can ever figure it out.

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: Millartime on September 12, 2003, 12:23:36 AM

Damn, 24 hours worth of that kinda work should at least guarantee you a solid hour of back massage. :D

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: AlbX on September 12, 2003, 01:08:19 AM

:ph34r: Windows sucks but everyone knows that!
Next time ask me for a hand and we goto KICK the pc seller!
=)
ALBX

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: Gord on September 12, 2003, 03:55:45 AM

QuoteTotal gratitude expressed by Zumi so far: None.

Mood: Unpleasant.

Well, if you don't want her, I'll take her and add her to my Asian girl collection.

That said, when my Viao harddrive crashed last year with a corrupted boot sector, my recovery CD also formatted the drive. I lost many fine pictures and the phone number of my future wife I had met a few hours before.

I now cry myself to sleep every night.

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: exodus on September 12, 2003, 04:57:18 AM

at least you haven't been stabbed recently.

Am I right?

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: Haohmaru on September 13, 2003, 04:55:15 AM

Holy hell, exodus is an "advanced member"

I better quit posting or I'll be next...

Title: The fun never stops.
Post by: exodus on September 13, 2003, 03:03:56 PM

I M T3H k00l!!

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