The fun never stops.

[NFG]

Well happy day.  Running symantec's Welchia Squelcher fucked Zumi's little mebius royally.  XP wouldn't boot past this screen 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.

[Haohmaru]

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.

[Millartime]

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

[AlbX]

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

[Gord]

Total 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.

[exodus]

at least you haven't been stabbed recently.  

Am I right?

[Haohmaru]

Holy hell, exodus is an "advanced member"

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

[exodus]

I M T3H k00l!!