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Wow. I've had this computer (my second, first PC) since 5/2000. Hah. Longer then I thought it was ... hopefully, the hard-drive won't fry (or at least, no time soon).
Sorry for your loss, Charles. But from what you described, I imagined your "computer room" as resembling something from "Hackers" with ten or twelve CPUs and a hundred monitors ...
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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The last backup was a year ago... I was actually using that system to back *THIS* one up, as I assumed this one would keel over first.
Luckily what was lost can be replaced, and this is giving me the chance to start over cleanly. (Had some nasty driver conflict issues and odd crashes)
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Technically, its just the hard drive thats gone right? Nothing physically wrong with the rest of the computer?
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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Nope, it's "just" the drive... but really, isn't it the contents of the drive that make up the computer?
Think about it. Each and every computer has its own little personality, its own quirks. The icons in the tray, your shortcut bar, if any, the items in the start menu, your desktop.. the things you do every day define the computer and how you work with it... or in some cases, how it prevents you from working.
The loveable kludge of a machine known as pentium3 is now dead - the hard drive turned into strawberry jam.
The "new" machine, while it shares the same hardware, is totally different... and seems to be behaving itself. For the most part.
Oh... the new machine's name? flyinghell.
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I just had a similar thing happen to me, I think I got some kind of virus or something when my daughter downloaded KAZAA. I started to have funny things happen to my comp. Then I couldn't even get it to run though Scandisk. Finally I found that my FAT table was partially gone or corrupted, doesn't matter which. I tried to format my HD and it wouldn't even do that, so I used the partion programme in the startup disk to partion my drive then it let me format these drive individually. Running defrag later I found a lot of bad sectors on my drive that were not there before. Was it KAZAA, I'm not sure I was guessing but I am still having strange errors happening to me, real pain in the ass. Has anyone upgraded to XP and has it solved any stupid problems?
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