[Bobboau]

well the reformation was going smoothly then suddenly

sp2

dun dun dun!

it installs, I reboot,

"error, important file missing, ntsomethingsomething"


NO!



/*incerts xp install disk*/

xp installer is looking at your hard drive... for three hours...

/*force the powe off*/

/*turns computer back on*/

the 'good' hard drive: "click click click" "click click click" "click click click"

me: NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

/*looks at banck acount*/ funds == joke

well, unless someone wants to wire me a couple hundred bucks for a new hard drive (I have a pay pall acount by the way) I'm going to be out of touch more or less for the next 2-3 weeks. I can still get on like I am right now in the down stairs computer, but it sucks, or on the school computers, and all my important files (includeing my vast porn stores, oh and FSO source, asorted art files, ect...) are on the SATA drive so they are all ok, but I am functionaly shot down. bye for now.

[Swamp_Thing]

That´s funny! I had the same problem 3 days ago. Had to reformat 3 times, because as soon as i finished installing all the crap, i would get overrun by virus and worms...
Lost a lot of data, but my drives are still in working order.


Virus and worm creators should have their dicks cut off and fed to them with mustard. They should be covered in honey, dipped in shiit and buried in an ant hill, leaving only the head out. They should have their tiny little dicks tied to a drag racer, and have the green light come on. They should be put in jail next to a big black dude named Bubba, where they would take it up the arse and answer to the name "biatch"!!

**insert other forms of painfull torture here**

[Thorn]

I can send you... 2 dollars.....

[Carl]

lesson: don't ever install sp2. i learnt that the hard way, too.

[Trivial Psychic]

Hey Bob, you wouldn't be able to install your OS in the SATA you mentioned would you?

[Grey Wolf]

Hmm.... My best idea at the moment is to hook up the working drive to a computer with a CD-RW (or, if possible, a DVD-RW drive), burn everything you need off of it, then format that and use it for your system drive.

[phreak]

much better than at work

I installed a spare hot-swap hard-drive on a server at work, and had to reboot so server 2k would recognize the drive so i could format it.  Now the place closes at 11pm and rather not be at work at the time so i rebooted the server at home through remote desktop.  When i came in today the things lit up like a christmas tree and the RAID array is dead.  Its still running but slow as hell and now for some reason their internet is dead so i can't remote in now.

*sigh*

[WMCoolmon]

200 bucks? Are you buying yourself a new video card, or a new hard drive?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-122&depa=0

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
That´s funny! I had the same problem 3 days ago. Had to reformat 3 times, because as soon as i finished installing all the crap, i would get overrun by virus and worms...
Lost a lot of data, but my drives are still in working order.


Virus and worm creators should have their dicks cut off and fed to them with mustard. They should be covered in honey, dipped in shiit and buried in an ant hill, leaving only the head out. They should have their tiny little dicks tied to a drag racer, and have the green light come on. They should be put in jail next to a big black dude named Bubba, where they would take it up the arse and answer to the name "biatch"!!

**insert other forms of painfull torture here**

Download the XP SP2 network install and do all of your reformatting offline (with the network cable unplugged or your wireless router turned off) until you install that.  Then go about everything else.

Apparently the average time for a vulnerable XP machine with no patches is 30 minutes.

[Taristin]

That was... colourful.

[Swamp_Thing]

Better yet, use Partition Magic to create a 1 or 2 gygabyte partion, and install XP there. It won´t delete your data, but you need to have a few gygabytes free in your SATA drive.

Can´t you rescue the other hard drive? Sometimes it´s a passing problem. Try to format again, and use "fdisk" to create the right partition and boot file. You could have the boot data corrupted. But that is easelly fixed.

You should save to buy another drive anyway. I have 3 hard drives in my system, 2 IDE and a 200gb SATA. And one of my IDE is divided in 2 partitions, so i basically have 4 HDD.

Btw, is your copy of XP "legal"? Because SP2 has a problem with "non legal" XP, you need to change your serial for it to work. It´s an easy process. Let me know if you need it.

[MatthewPapa]

This is an all too familiar scene for me too Bobboau. I just wanted to make it known to you that you arent the only person having problems like this.

[Bobboau]

the hard drive screams now when I turn on the computer, I'm prety sure it's dead.

I probly could boot from my SATA drive, but I will not, that is for data only.

[Grey Wolf]

Then your only choice is spending $60 and getting another 80GB SATA HD to boot from.

[Nuke]

did you try a low level format? ive seen dtives that sounded like death purr like kittens after a low level format.

[Admiral Nelson]

Do you seriously want/need pay pal bucks to get back on line? Given the value I've gotten out of Freespace and the source code project, I have no problem at all sending $10-$20 your way....

[Nico]

I'd send you the money, Bob, but considering the €->$ exchange rate, you'd lose a lot of money...

[Bobboau]

if you want to give me some cash that'd be great, but I'm not actualy asking, I'll get it sooner or later.

[Admiral Nelson]

It's entirely up to you. You want it, you got it.

I paid $50.00 for Doom III and never even got half way thru it. Freespace 2 OTOH has stayed with me ever since it was released, however long ago that was.... So value per dollar wise, better you get some dough than Mr Carmack...

[Sandwich]

Bobb, you might want to post your paypal account.