Damn, should've seen it coming....
 

about 15-20 minutes ago, my hard drive crashed. Not much more to say. I'll give more details later, but right now, I'm pretty pissed.

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That sucks...

I couldn't help laughing when I saw your post in combination with your sig though ;)

LMAO...
oh yeah.. sorry about your hd.

Oh, that reminds me. I need to make some backups.

Did you have all your shtuff backed up? Hope you did.

Btw, what kind of hard drive was it?

I know how you are feeling right now. It totally sucks. I am so sorry.
~ Missy

Well, it all turned out well in the end. My horror story, from where I left off:

So, I talked to my dad on the phone while he was on his way home, and he told me to make a bootable floppy on a different computer, and boot off of that. So I did, and I was still able to read everything on the hard drive. So just on a hunch, I CD'd (changed directory) to C:\windows, and went WIN enter. Than, it told me that it was missing himem.sys. So, I looked for that, and it was where it was supposed to be. So than, my dad got home, we ate supper, than me and my dad went back to work. We were discussing all of the crap we'd have to do, like take the hard drive out, put it in a different computer as a slave, copy the important stuff off, format it, f-disk it, re-install windows, the works. Before that though, I made a windows startup disk, and booted off of that. I booted with cd support, and than ran scandisk. It reported that the only thing wrong was that the amount of free hard-drive space was being reported incorrectly. So than, I ran a surface scan, and it found no bad sectors. Than Scandisk fixed the free space error. So, just for fun, I took the floppy out, and hit reset. It booted into windows fine.

I know, your probably thinking, WTF, but thats really what happened

BTW, I don't blame any of you for laughing, the Sig does go kind of strange with the post.

Sarge, I don't remember what kind of drive it was, I'll check and post it later.

Cool beans. Glad you didn't lose anything. :)

Wow, someone who has a father that actually knows stuff about computers. My dad always buggs me about how to do simple stuff, like how to install a program or send an email attachment. Also, he likes to come in my room sometimes, look over my shoulder, then act like he knows what I'm doing and attempts to start a conversation about it (he even gives me "tips" about how to do something he knows nothing about, like formatting an HTML file). :blah:

Anyhow, it's great to hear you didn't lose anything important.

I learnt quite a lot of what I know from my Dad, and he knows a lot more than I do. He is the first person I call on if I need help.

Sucked when I was a kid looking at porn though. He had keyloggers :(

Sorry

my dad still knows more than i do about DOS commands and such. but i know more than he does about computers in general and windows 3.1 on up. since i've had my own computer for a few years now.

heh, ill never forget my first (real) computer encounter, my mom baught a 286\386 (cant remember which) to do some ducument typing, i got curious, and started hitting the keyboard in dos, aaaaah.... seeing as what i type shows in the command prompt :) *sheds tear* i was like 3 or 4!!!

then came windows 3.11, began learning how to "manage" an operating system at the age of 7! and also made my first undoable screw-up of deleting autoexec.bat and config.sys without knowing how important they were.

yes, i always thought hey, what are these? they need to be deleted!

to be continued.......

Ah yes . . I remember those days.