scarlemthug

Well my computer crashed this evening and displayed a NO OPERATING SYSTEM message. So now after recovering my original software it seems as though I have lost everything. There goes 2000songs, tons of pictures, important documents my mom has on here ....2 years of **** on this computer GONE. Computers are ******* bullshit and if it was a virus then I should be able to sue my internet provider as there prividing me a service but cant gurantee a safe system? WTF is this bullshit.

If anyone thinks they could help me try and recover the stuff from my HD let me know cause im praying that it can be restored somehow.

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MystixEL

2 years? Thats pretty long for not formatting and stuff. You should back up your important documents every now and then. Altought 2000 songs are quite hard to back up, i would suggest getting another harddrive. And about the virus thing, why would the internet provider be responsible? You are never safe on a computer

scarlemthug

IF your internet provider cant gurantee that you wont be getting hacked into etc then they shouldnt be providing a service. I have no idea how my computer got erased but im 99.9% sure it wasnt a virus as I cant download **** on this stupid 56K modem.

I do have all my songs at my dads but I spent like over a year burning RW cd's and transfering them to this computer and now there all gone.

The G2 Racer

Songs can be replaced man. Just takes a long *** time to d/l them.
As for the internet provider, they won't do **** but laugh at you man. By being on the internet you open yourself up to hackers and viruses. The only way around this is to get good anti-virus software and a firewall.

imported_loudsubz

thats why you backup your important documents and files

scarlemthug

yeah I know, i just think this world is getting worse and worse and as the consumer we get screwed over and over again.

Anyways that was my rant thanks guys.

scarlemthug

when your burner likes to stop working halfway through every cd there is no point in even trying.

imported_loudsubz

thats when you take the comp to get fixed or find someone who can help you get it working.

scarlemthug

yeah man.......but im not exactly "rich"

imported_loudsubz

you dont have to be so called "rich"

If you dont take the nessessary precations then when you run into a problem like this theres no one else you can put the blame on. As long as you took the precautions.

I know your pain though, I have run into your situation before but there was no one to blame but me because I neglected to backup my work so I had to let it all go.

Maybe if you sold some of your car audio you could get your burner "fixed" ??

scarlemthug

LoL car before computer anyday.....


ps - sending out money order for my new 12's tommorow.

imported_BoOsTd

exact reason i run 2 drives... 1 small one for the OS, and one big drive for storage... That sux man, hope it can be repaired....

hmm... you should try putting in the windows xp disk then boot up onto it and choose the repair function... worth a try...not sure if win95,98,2000 have that, if thats what your running...

QuiCK_TiME

DUDE, u shoulda got a dell

scarlemthug

thanks for the suggestion man.....hopefully someone who has some computer knowledge will step up and try to help me out.

imported_haymaker

what internet provider do you have??? i have sympatico anti virus, fire wall everything i can get and virus's still get through i think necks need to be slit

imported_Joker

what if they both crash? I was running it like that on my old computer, I'm looking to do it with my new one cause I have a raid controller, with a raid controller, if one crashes wil both crash also?

imported_My Blue Si

If you choose stiping (RAID 0) then if one goes down the other one is useless to recover and garbage.

Scarlem, theres little programs you can use for recovering but I doubt they will work. My best bet is taking it to a shop and get every cluster repaired on the drive and recovered. It can be done, but it costs $$$. Not sure how much though, call a few and find out. Might be a couple hundred.

imported_eth0r

check ur pm i kno a few things

PULOVR

You do know that burners are as cheap as a tank of gas, right?

Oh well, what's done is done.


What I would do, is PM 94EG6HB......he was the one that helped me out when my first compter screwed up, when I accidently pulled out my removable drive with the power on.

I was able to get most of the songs and importanat family pics that were on the HD.....which btw, were not printed out yet.

Thanks Aaron.

He might be able to help you out, and he's cheaper than taking it to a repair center.

imported_gatherer

dude so your harddrive crashed and then you reinstalled an O/S on that same drive? if you formatted the drive theres going to be nothing left of your old data

I recommend doing what I do .... 2 data drives.... mirror them so that the data on one is the same as the data on the other and they appear as one drive. that way if one of my drives with data goes down I just get a new one and re-mirror them. if the O/S drive with the programs and everything goes down I just get a new one and re-install everything ... no data lost