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Offline Fineus

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It appears my recently aquired virus ripped out my guts when I took it out - evey single image I've ever collected from the internet is gone. This includes everyones renders, the hundreds of wallpapers and so on and so on that I had stored on the HD.

Obviously, I'm not happy.

However since their totally gone and so is the virus, I need to start rebuilding what I have. Some of it I can get back from backup CDs - but the last 4 months or so are completely gone (which is a hell of a lot for me).

If anyone knows any sites that have internet wallpaper, renders, anything that I might have had on the computer - I'd like to have the links please. Just post them up here and I can try and recover what I lost.

 

Offline Shrike

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Noo!  Not your pr0n collection!!  (sorry dude, I know that's not what it was and I would be hella peeved if it happened to me, but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw 'images from the net')

Now that the inevitable is out of the way, everyone may proceed with the sympathy.
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Offline Thorn

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I dunno, this may be new to you, maybe not...
Relicpr0n renders...

 

Offline Fineus

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Maybe not pr0n Shrike (perhaps some wallpapers though....)

And thanks Thorn - and for everyone, assume I know nothing of any sites, that way you might remind me of something I missed...

 

Offline Fineus

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Bump... Thunder needs his art back dammit!

 

Offline Stryke 9

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I would give you some wallpapers, but a certain jackass deleted my upload folders and couldn't be bothered to tell me about it...  

Try the perfect logo...  http://www.manbeef.com/

[This message has been edited by Stryke 9 (edited 12-02-2001).]

 

Offline Ryx

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Look Here 3D Artists

Seriously nice stuff here IMO.  


[This message has been edited by Ryx (edited 12-02-2001).]
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Offline Alikchi

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wincustomize.com

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Offline Setekh

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- Eddie Kent Woo, Setekh, Steak (of Steaks), AWACS. Seriously, just pick one.
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THE HARD LIGHT ARRAY. Always makes you say wow.

 

Offline Fineus

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Didn't see that coming Setekh  

Thanks everyone - I think before I start downloading everything again I'll backup what I've got and make the whole thing a bit more efficient. Keep those links coming though please  

 

Offline Setekh

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Want more links? Don't be so lazy...  
- Eddie Kent Woo, Setekh, Steak (of Steaks), AWACS. Seriously, just pick one.
HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS, now V3.0. Bringing Modders Together since January 2001.
THE HARD LIGHT ARRAY. Always makes you say wow.

 

Offline Fineus

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I'm not being lazy - but I know that search engines can miss things or I can forget to search for something and miss it all together (like Relic pr0n for instance, I wouldn't have thought of that). So :P to you  

 

Offline Setekh

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Btw, you do know that so long as you haven't fully written over all your stuff, you can probably recover any of the junk you had there before? Just get a data recovery program like RECON and follow the instructions... it's worth it if you value your collection that much.  
- Eddie Kent Woo, Setekh, Steak (of Steaks), AWACS. Seriously, just pick one.
HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS, now V3.0. Bringing Modders Together since January 2001.
THE HARD LIGHT ARRAY. Always makes you say wow.

 

Offline Fineus

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I don't think that'll work - it all just seems totally wiped...

 

Offline Setekh

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To the untrained eye...  

No, seriously, that's what data recovery means.  
- Eddie Kent Woo, Setekh, Steak (of Steaks), AWACS. Seriously, just pick one.
HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS, now V3.0. Bringing Modders Together since January 2001.
THE HARD LIGHT ARRAY. Always makes you say wow.

 

Offline Blue Lion

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Data isn't lost til it's written over.....or the HD is screwed. Correct me if I'm wrong though

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Offline Fineus

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So your saying that the whole lot is still there but I can't see it?

 

Offline Nico

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Originally posted by Thunder:
So your saying that the whole lot is still there but I can't see it?

well, as windows keeps writing temp files, and loads of them when it starts, and as it writes it anywhere,w/o any hierarchy on what cluster it'll use... don't hold your breath.
SCREW CANON!

 

Offline Vertigo1

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 http://vertigo1-2.freeyellow.com/
 http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/

Feel free to use anything you see there.  Just a fair warning, the freeyellow account is just a general crap account.  Its mostly old renderings and a few stupid pics people have asked me to host for them.  The f2s account is my main account and has all of my newer renderings.

And on this note, due to MS's really crappy coding, I lost my entire backup which included my ICQ contact list, every movie from spacebattles.com I had (which was most of them), and all of the models I did (including my Tigg model and that Cruiser model that I never was able to finish.), every 3dsmax scene and all renderings on my HD (which thankfully are still online), and a whole bunch of other stuff.  I've just spent the last 6 hours restoring what I could.  (needless to say I wasn't at all happy when I found out that nearly 3GB of hard work is gone for good)  

Now, if you were on my contact list, please msg me.  I wasn't able to find an old version of ICQ (w/o the gay banner ads) so I was forced to d/l 2000b and try to find that page which tells how to...fix them.   (Yes, it is legal.  ICQ had instructions on their site for the longest time.  However, they...disappeared from their site so I'll have to look elsewhere.)

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Offline RoachKoach

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oh man - thats real bad news thunder. damn sorry.

was it VBS.Loveletter.CI by the way? cos my freind thought he lost every single jpg on his comp just 2 days back becos of it. i told him to quarantine the lot and i downloaded the fix for him and voila - he was back with his jpegs.

moral of the story - be sure u cant recover what u think uve lost. Setekh is probably right and u can recover ur collection , but u must act ASAP to save as much of it as u can
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