vava Posted August 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 I just want to add... my backups are up to date - so I'm not worried (that's for all those people who think technology is infallible, and never do there backups! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Computer crashed. I'm pretty sure my HD has gone to the bridge. If I believed in hell that's what it would be like. Vavushka how did you manage to crash your computer, were you tap dancing on it? I had a few blue screens of death and just when I would start gasping it would come back to life. Aaaaah, me and my babies. And speaking of my babies, I gave my older one a glamorous makeover. Now it has a big and strong black body and some fancy vessels of neon lights along its front panel. Oooops, just got a message about my windows activation, and that it will reduce in fuctionality if I don't activate it now. The problem is that my windows is not exactly from the "original source." I think this is when you say "Eve, you're screwed!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 uh-oh. Computer crashed. Could not reboot. Heard horrible grinding sound from box. Reboot from CD - can't mount volume Diagnosis: Dead Computer. I'm pretty sure my HD has gone to the bridge. It's under warranty anyway. he he At least I still have my MAC. LOL!!! OK! OK! I exactly know what you mean. Was your HD by chance a Maxor? Just wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted August 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Western Digital. I think it's a rare case - but it can happen to anyone. Must be the Montreal humidity.... humidex was soaring the last couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Western Digital. I think it's a rare case - but it can happen to anyone. Must be the Montreal humidity.... humidex was soaring the last couple of days. I'm preparing my computer for it to be the most safest in terms of data protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted August 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 BTW - about all those DOS prompt questions... There are TWO command prompts available on Windows XP: cmd.exe & command.exe And there's a huge difference between the two. While cmd.exe is a 32-bit console application, the 'older' command.com is a 16-bit DOS application. I was running the latter - hence the difficulties. You would normally want to use cmd.exe on the NT-based versions of Windows (NT, 2000, XP). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Not to mention command.exe being HORRIBLY slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted August 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Not to mention command.exe being HORRIBLY slow. my bad... But at least we know that annoying file-bug I was having was a symptom of something else... I should have my new HD tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 I got my new HD - Everything is re-installed, my backup restore worked like a charm! No lost emails, contacts, documents, applications etc... the only thing I've misplaced is some serial numbers for shareware I've purchased over the years... Thanks for all those you offered valuable suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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