is my data GONE?

Ahnimus · December 2006

Well, my issue with Longhorn when I tried it was the XML bar. XML, I thought, was very easily exploitable. The last thing I need is adware taking over my taskbar. Besides that, I don't know much about Vista.

Microsoft ripping off Mac isn't anything knew. All Windows O/S are ripped off from Mac. Internet Explorer is ripped off from Netscape Navigator. MS Outlook is a rip-off of Eudora. The list goes on for all the software Microsoft has ever made.

"Good artists copy, Great artists steal."
-- Picasso

I personally don't think you should ever vacuum out your computer. I recommend "Dust Remover Spray" at your local Radio Shack(The Source) or Circuit City. It's a lot messier, but there is no chance of frying your computer with EM static.

iluvcats · December 2006

so last night he attempted to boot up and it still did the same thing. not sure what he did next (and he did know which hard drive was which, btw)

it asked to do a scan disc and he said that took forever, it would correct an error and started over 10 times, well then he fell asleep watching tv. we woke up at 3 a.m. and he went downstairs and finished. he had to reinstall windows shitty ME. my desktop pic of pearl jam was gone but otherwise, i looked at a directory of the pics and many old ones are there

as well as my word docs...
now the old email which i stopped using a month ago and he continued to use it, does not work. it stank anyway. i told him we need to get our adelphia account. i've been using hotmail anyway.

he tried copying my pics and he said my memory stick was alot smaller than his memory stick. i will buy a better one today! i think mine is 3 yrs old.

so it seems to be ok, lucky for him, huh?

thanks again everyone for helping to reassure me yesterday that the data was still there

DarkStar · December 2006

iluvcats wrote:

so last night he attempted to boot up and it still did the same thing. not sure what he did next (and he did know which hard drive was which, btw)

it asked to do a scan disc and he said that took forever, it would correct an error and started over 10 times, well then he fell asleep watching tv. we woke up at 3 a.m. and he went downstairs and finished. he had to reinstall windows shitty ME. my desktop pic of pearl jam was gone but otherwise, i looked at a directory of the pics and many old ones are there as well as my word docs...
now the old email which i stopped using a month ago and he continued to use it, does not work. it stank anyway. i told him we need to get our adelphia account. i've been using hotmail anyway.

he tried copying my pics and he said my memory stick was alot smaller than his memory stick. i will buy a better one today! i think mine is 3 yrs old.

so it seems to be ok, lucky for him, huh?

thanks again everyone for helping to reassure me yesterday that the data was still there

didn't you say you had your computers on a network?

iluvcats wrote:

I blame everything on the windows ME, which crashed 5x/week but otherwise the computer worked very well, esp. when we got adelphia high speed internet. And if that computer ever works again, we're still keeping it on a network. how will we ever get rid of that 1995 thing, lol?

anyway...just share the drive that has the files you want to move on your network...you shouldn't need to buy a bigger memory stick.

ds

norm · December 2006

iluvcats wrote:

so last night he attempted to boot up and it still did the same thing. not sure what he did next (and he did know which hard drive was which, btw)

it asked to do a scan disc and he said that took forever, it would correct an error and started over 10 times, well then he fell asleep watching tv. we woke up at 3 a.m. and he went downstairs and finished. he had to reinstall windows shitty ME. my desktop pic of pearl jam was gone but otherwise, i looked at a directory of the pics and many old ones are there as well as my word docs...
now the old email which i stopped using a month ago and he continued to use it, does not work. it stank anyway. i told him we need to get our adelphia account. i've been using hotmail anyway.

he tried copying my pics and he said my memory stick was alot smaller than his memory stick. i will buy a better one today! i think mine is 3 yrs old.

so it seems to be ok, lucky for him, huh?

thanks again everyone for helping to reassure me yesterday that the data was still there

Good news. Now you will understand when I say

BACKUP
BACKUP
BACKUP
BACKUP
BACKUP
BACKUP
BACKUP
BACKUP

:D:D:D

iluvcats · December 2006

well, he's still copying the files and bringing them up here on the stick. he said he's going to replace the hard drive for the 2000 computer.

my pj bootlegs were ok!!!! (i did copy most of them onto cds though)

i know, i know all about backups. i was lazy.

i just asked him about the network and he said it's not networked properly right now, and he preferred to do it with the stick as opposed to screwing it up! God I must be mean.

is my data GONE?

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