I reinstalled Windows into a nother drive trying to fix a problem I was having. And after doing so I made sure to move everything I wanted to keep onto my other drive because I was going to format my drive E. Well, once I clicked OK and watched the progress bar fill I suddenly realized.......MY MUSIC, was on that drive. I lost all my songs which were compiled ever since my junior year of highschool, 5 years ago. It's all gone...just like that. I am now sitting in a room with the a buzzzzz (computer fans) filling the room. I miss my music. ....damnit. Ever done anything stupid like that, (deleting goods)? RIP music. I miss you, and hopefully will beable to build up a collection like you.
Nope, I am tyring to work on it right now. I am doing my best to remember what I can. There were so many songs....damnit.
I've actually reformatted my hard drive at least twice... And I didn't even have a second drive to move all my goods onto. But then I fixed that situation. And now I have 10x the music I ever had before.
Isn't there a way you can restore your computer to the way it was the day, week, or month before? I don't know if this would work, but if you can find out how it might be worth a try. Pugs
Also, one of the best things I've found to do when you know there are songs you want but you just can't remember them is to download a list of songs someone has on their cpu. I never use Kazaa, only MIRC and on there you can search for songs or view someones list and choose from there. If you want to email me at pugsly8422@hotmail.com I'd be glad to send you one of the lists. Pugs
It gets worse..... After trying to fix it from all the spyware and virus crap, I reinstalled windows etc. and formated one of my drives. I have been having a bad problem with something on my pc that is making my cpu run at 100% all the time with out dipping, and so my OS becomes useless. I can't do anything with my pc. I Then attempted to install SP2 and while it was close to finishing it stopped progressing. It just sat there. Turns out he 100% thing was happening again. I apparently pressed control alt delete too many times or something and when the task manager finally loaded it rebooted. My pc booted up with the warning that the intallation of SP2 didn't finish and that I should uninstall it because windows was very unstable. well, I was going to but used windows for a while because it was running nicely for once. Well, eventually me being stupid I loaded the sims 2 and it rebooted on me. Now, when I attempt to boot up my pc it does the ram check etc. then dies. It says NTLDR is missing, then tells me to reboot. I can't get to windows. I suck....I don't know what to do now. I am so frustrated..... ANyone have any ideas on what to do?
I lost about 20 percent of my files several years ago. Since then, I have regularly backed up to two separate external hard drives three times a day: 30GB Drive: Business and Personal files every night at 3am 60GB Drive : All email and attachments every day at 3pm Contents of the entire drive every day at 6am I don't ever want to go through that crap again.
... No matter what the disaster scenario is- GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MTF or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted... Cool. I was about to recommend one of the disk recovery services, but they cost $$$. This apparently can recover if your reformatted, which makes sense since I don't think the formatting is a low level format anymore. Of course, don't write anything to the disk until you attempt recover.
I've used some of those drive recovery programs before, and never had much luck with them. When I was a freshman in college, I had something very similar happen. Knowing what I know now, I could've fixed it. But at the time, I didn't know, and no one else knew how to fix it -- basically, my windows 95 install barfed all over itself and wouldn't let me get it up. Blah, blah, blah, I lost all my files. Everything. All my papers, essays, files, etc. for about two years, gone. It sounds silly, but it had a profound impact on me. Being completely helpless, and losing so much of "my life's work" to that point, I realized there wasn't anything I could do, and getting angry wasn't going to solve anything. So I was patient and calm, and I've been patient and calm in almost every bad situation ever since.
i tried to up my ram from 512 to 1 gig. well apparently the memory stick wasnt inserted properly, and i have my hard drives raided together. all the information was lost, which included about 17gigs worth of music, and about 10 gigs worth of movies and tv shows.... i too do regular backups now.
Like I said, NOW I KNOW WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE, but at the time I didn't. Also, this is back in the day when hard drives were expensive, and I was in college and didn't have an extra. No one I knew had an extra. It was a 2GB drive, and when I bought an extra later that year, it cost me something like $200.
