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Posted on 10-23-08 02:02 PM

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I'm downloading some animes just now when I heard someone knocking at the door. I thought it was my mother so I directly cut the power supply of my PC. When later I turned it on again, it got a blue screen for me. No matter what I do(safe mode etc.) I still got the same message. I took out a system CD and attempt to reinstall when I found that Drive C was completely destroyed by the accident. So you know what happened next... formatting drive C and reinstall all of the drivers and softwares. The worst thing is that I lost all my information on drive C... luckily there was nothing important.

So next time I will backup all the important info on my hard drive

And by the way, I happened to bump a couple threads yesterday. Maybe I turned to the wrong page and replied without seeing the date, so sorry about that.

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Posted on 10-23-08 02:12 PM

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While I'm sorry to hear that, I think you somewhat overreacted by instantly formatting and reinstalling. By the lone virtue of the probability of too large parts of C: being in the process of being rewritten at once being quite low, what likely happened is that, at most, some part of the partition table or C:'s FS metadata broke - which would have enabled you to restore the partition to a near-unharmed state using tools that are floating around the internet. I managed to manually restore accidentally deleted partitions before...

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Posted on 10-23-08 02:32 PM

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Posted by 3.14+
I'm downloading some animes just now when I heard someone knocking at the door. I thought it was my mother so I directly cut the power supply of my PC.

Is anime really that controversial within your family?

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Posted on 10-23-08 03:50 PM (rev. 2 of 10-23-08 03:54 PM)

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Posted by blackhole89
While I'm sorry to hear that, I think you somewhat overreacted by instantly formatting and reinstalling. By the lone virtue of the probability of too large parts of C: being in the process of being rewritten at once being quite low, what likely happened is that, at most, some part of the partition table or C:'s FS metadata broke - which would have enabled you to restore the partition to a near-unharmed state using tools that are floating around the internet. I managed to manually restore accidentally deleted partitions before...

Not exactly. When I got to the beginning phase of installing program, I saw that partition C is unrecogniseable(it showed 20000MB/20000MB, which means that it is actually completely destroyed), so I had no choice but to format and reinstall.

[edit]Oh, I see your meaning, but I was very panic at that time, so I forgot. And there was no way to visit Internet if the PC is like that. However there was no important files on drive C, so I am not too regretful now

Posted by Ailure
Is anime really that controversial within your family?

No, but if they see me using PC immidiately after I came home, I will be flamed. But I am only checking out forums for new posts and threads.

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Posted on 10-24-08 02:25 PM

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Owch. I had that once.. and nearly twice. I have a 80 GB Hard Drive in a box, because some of the sectors are permanently damaged.. and the fact the number of damaged sectors kept increasing. I learnt keeping a backup of important files is always nice. ____________________
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Posted on 10-27-08 03:14 AM

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Bwah, that's happened to me loads of times.

But yeah, now I back up important files on spare HD's or DVD's.

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Posted on 10-27-08 06:59 PM

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Posted by Gywall
I have a 80 GB Hard Drive in a box, because some of the sectors are permanently damaged.. and the fact the number of damaged sectors kept increasing.

Broken sectors are common on HD's, so common that there's a spare pool of sectors that is used as soon one breaks. And that it's been considered normal with a HD having broken sectors when coming out fresh from the manufacturing plant.

However when the filesystem itself notices the broken sectors (because the pool of spare sectors have ran out), and it keeps increasing... it's time to buy a new HD.

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Posted on 10-27-08 07:08 PM

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Posted by Levesque
Bwah, that's happened to me loads of times.

But yeah, now I back up important files on spare HD's or DVD's.

Yeah, external drives is a goood thing. Plan to get one soon, myself.

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Posted on 10-27-08 10:44 PM

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Posted by Levesque
Bwah, that's happened to me loads of times.

But yeah, now I back up important files on spare HD's or DVD's.

Yeah, external drives is a goood thing.

Yeah, especially in this day and age where viruses and spyware could fuck up an unprotected computer in an instant.

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Posted on 10-30-08 10:42 AM

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Posted by Levesque
Yeah, especially in this day and age where viruses and spyware could fuck up an unprotected computer in an instant.

Not that serious though

, if you have properly set your antivirus program.

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Posted on 10-30-08 09:00 PM

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Posted by Levesque
Yeah, especially in this day and age where viruses and spyware could fuck up an unprotected computer in an instant.

Not that serious though , if you have properly set your antivirus program.

I've survived about 8 years of internet life without having any antivirus program, firewall or else running and never caught a single virus as evidenced by a scan I ran from a Knoppix boot once for the hell of it.

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Posted on 10-30-08 09:42 PM

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Posted by blackhole89
While I'm sorry to hear that, I think you somewhat overreacted by instantly formatting and reinstalling. By the lone virtue of the probability of too large parts of C: being in the process of being rewritten at once being quite low, what likely happened is that, at most, some part of the partition table or C:'s FS metadata broke - which would have enabled you to restore the partition to a near-unharmed state using tools that are floating around the internet. I managed to manually restore accidentally deleted partitions before...

It's funny. NTFS is supposed to have a journal, but apparently the Microsoft engineers never actually implemented it into the chkdsk routine.

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Posted on 10-30-08 10:42 PM

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Posted by Levesque
Yeah, especially in this day and age where viruses and spyware could fuck up an unprotected computer in an instant.

Not that serious though , if you have properly set your antivirus program.

Yeah true, but I've some how managed to get viruses before, losing all vital data on my PC.

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Posted on 11-04-08 12:45 PM

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Posted by blackhole89
I've survived about 8 years of internet life without having any antivirus program, firewall or else running and never caught a single virus as evidenced by a scan I ran from a Knoppix boot once for the hell of it.

Same here. About 8 years. Pre-2000 though, I used to get a lot of those old pop ups that would ask you to install god knows what to continue, and I was pretty naive then. However, it wasn't my computer I was using.

But yeah, really. Just use a little common sense, and you'll be fine.

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Posted on 11-04-08 04:29 PM

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Posted by 3.14+
I'm downloading some ~~bestiality~~ animes just now when I heard someone knocking at the door. I thought it was my mother so I directly cut the power supply of my PC. When later I turned it on again, it got a blue screen for me. No matter what I do(safe mode etc.) I still got the same message.

Should've booted from the OS disk, gone to the recovery console and ran chkdsk /r on the C drive. 98% chance that would've fixed the problem with minimal data loss.

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