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Diva
08-02-04, 07:32AM
Mondays suck, there's no doubt about it. But try having three of them. My friend called me up seeing if I wanted a 250gb hard drive on sale. I bought one and that's where my troubles began. After Pos made a step by step procedure on how to use Ghost I moved my hard drive over and expected to reboot on my brand spanking new drive. What I got was "Error loading OS". WTF!?! Over the next several hours I tried to get my hard drive up and running, and ended up wiping out my data. Years of pictures, programs and logs were gone. I couldnt even breath. I sat there, numb and crying.

It's funny how you learn about new things on your computer that you've had for over a year. For instance, I have a great program Called Tune Up Utilities with an Undelete capability. The only problem is that it only can pull up to 20,000 items up. That and that it renames everything numerically. After pulling things up by file type (.jpg, .gif, .txt, .mp3, etc...) I had recovered over 50,000 items... all with numerical names. Next Draaz helped me recover programs and other files off of the new hard drive and then partition that sucker. Now I have a new hard drive and over 50,000 files to go through, find out what they are and rename them. See you in a fucking month...


News n Stuff
º Wwhite Bengal tiger briefly escapes circus (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/28377.htm). Good kitty!
º Neighbors find body overlooked by police (http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%7E53%7E2307570,00.html). Lovely
º Priest and nun caught having sex (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1039108.html?menu=). Way to go
º Pharmacy sells prescriptions to unsinsured at no profit (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2712452). Very cool!
º Man harasses neighbor for 2-yr for talking loudly once (http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article838236.ece). L-O-S-E-R
º Restaurant bans those under 25 (http://www.rochesterdandc.com/news/07319K536BU_news.shtml). Whoa...
º Driving teacher without licence for 43 years (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5834643&section=news). Moron
º Children forced into sex acts (http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=500&fArticleId=2169680). Burn in Hell
º Lesbian nurses who killed their husbands get life (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040802p2a00m0dm005000c.html). WTF!?!
º Service does the dumping of a lover for you (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=vn20040731105959806C651470). Why?
º Man, 89, cleared of shoplifting diarrhea medicine (http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004407300694). Poor old biddy
º Teen eating corn on the cob wrecks car (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040801/NEWS04/408010340/1001/NEWS). Twit
º Escort busted after giving out phone number on radio (http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040730/1029949.asp). HAH!

Levity
º Cool avatars to make (http://avatarmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml)
º Brunette in jacuzzi (http://emmagrant.purefhg.com/004/index.html?ref=pc_nw_1463)
º I-hate-computers.org (http://i-hate-computers.org/)
º Lost found game (http://2flashgames.com/f/f-376.htm)
º Pixel draw (http://yuck-fou.net/main.php)
º Underground humor (http://www.undergroundhumor.com/index.htm)

warza bidul
08-02-04, 08:42AM
I've known system crashes, hard disk crashes, hardware crashes, power failures and more.

This machine had over 670 viruses in windows, moved to LBA linux, works fine, have a Suse linux 9.1 live cd as a backup if things go to shit.

I know what it's like to lose data, after all computers dying is similar...

entipy
08-02-04, 08:52AM
I read all your news links today, Diva! :D

I'm glad you recovered as much as you did. *hugs* Good luck in going through all of it. I know that's going to be a pain!

warza bidul
08-02-04, 12:34PM
On the positive side for the next few days you won't need to worry about finding something to do.

Ice Man
08-02-04, 02:42PM
Bless your heart. I went through the same thing this weekend trying to ghost into a new PC. WOW! I gave up and started over. I really need to learn more about this crap.

Poseidon
08-02-04, 03:14PM
:(

whitecrow
08-02-04, 04:08PM
/me hugs Diva

Need another one?

kittyroze
08-02-04, 10:14PM
/me hugs Diva too...

Time for a group hug?

whitecrow
08-02-04, 11:06PM
/me agrees!

yes yes!

entipy
08-03-04, 07:49AM
GROUP HUG!!!! :D

Lilith
08-03-04, 11:29AM
*HUG*

Ice Man
08-04-04, 06:39AM
LOL, I just learned as I went to sell my old dinosaur of a computer that I mistakenly used the power cord from my old computer. The new one didn't come with one. What a crock.

/me opens arms to hug everyone.