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HAVE I BEEN HIT BY MBLASTER?
August 27, 2003
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Posted on 08/27/2003 5:27:39 AM PDT by GYPSY286
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:27:39 AM PDT
by
GYPSY286
To: GYPSY286
Not necessarily a virus. It could be a hard drive failure.
To: SC_Republican
That's what it sounds like to me. Bad drive or bad IDE controller. I'd blow put the insides first.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:32:15 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: GYPSY286
I hope you have a good back up of your data.
Time for a new hard drive. Also, check your motherboard for blown or swelling capacitors.
But first, if you get the thing running, back up your data.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:32:56 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
Thanks for all the quick responses. Are hard drives expensive?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:41:09 AM PDT
by
GYPSY286
If I might borrow this thread for a sec. My old box started not recognising floopy, D drive, mouse or keyboard. Had to go into safe mode and remove them in device manager, then it would install them and run until the next start up. Motherboard problem?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:42:32 AM PDT
by
steve50
(You can't put Constitutional protections in a lockbox, repeal the Patriot Act)
To: GYPSY286
50 to 300 dollars, depending on how much storage space you'de like, and how fast of a drive you need.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:43:12 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Kakkate Koi!)
To: GYPSY286
Not really. You can get them for a good deal on Ebay. And next time be sure to back up the contents of your entire hard drive to a CD so you can just boot it up on a new one without having to reinstall everything. There's where Norton Ghost comes in handy in a situation like this.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:44:14 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: GYPSY286
Do as goldstategop says, get a ghosting program. IIRC it will allow you to hook up both HD's at the same time and copy EVERYTHING from the old disk to the new one and you won't have to reload any of the programs.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:50:09 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Blueflag; GYPSY286
But first, if you get the thing running, back up your data. Better idea - rather than risk corrupting the drive further, pull it out and connect it to another computer, if you have one handy or can borrow one for a while. Then you can scarf everything off of it for backup purposes by using the new machine. Plus, if the drive works fine in a new computer, you know that the porblem isn't the drive, but the motherboard on the old machine, probably the integrated IDE controller...
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:52:48 AM PDT
by
general_re
(Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?)
To: goldstategop
How do I do back up my hard drive? I have Windows XP Home and McAfee VirusScan software...
My son's entire 3rd grade science and history courses are on there!
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:55:42 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom
How do I do back up my hard drive?Do you have a CD burner and/or a Zip drive?
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:58:01 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(They've read all the books but they can't find the answers...)
To: 2Jedismom
Norton Ghost . But if you're afraid of losing data, your local computer stop tech can back up the data for you for a nominal fee.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:58:05 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: steve50
Can you boot from a floopy at all? Make a bootable floppy, and try to come up in a DOS session.
Sounds like the OS is corrupted, and the drivers for the devices. Usually when the hardware is broken, it stays broken. Hard to say, in this case.
You might try re-installing the OS from the CD and perhaps that will solve it, but no promises.
To: rdb3
No zip...I do have a burner.
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posted on
08/27/2003 5:59:40 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: GYPSY286
Nah, but you may have caught a case of internet herpies!
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posted on
08/27/2003 6:02:19 AM PDT
by
Area51
(RINO hunter!)
To: goldstategop
There's a computer tech place, just down the street from me...Like a
"Geek Rescue" type place.
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posted on
08/27/2003 6:03:07 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom
Okay, then what you need to do is burn your son's courses to CD(s). Programs can be reinstalled. Data, when lost, is lost. Burn anything that you save and feel that you will need later.
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posted on
08/27/2003 6:05:13 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(They've read all the books but they can't find the answers...)
To: Mr. Quarterpanel
I kept playing with it till it did eat the OS and wouldn't boot, it asked for the boot floppy. Since it won't recognise the floopy drive I can't reinstall. Old slot 1 board anyway, guess I just got some extra parts. :-)
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posted on
08/27/2003 6:07:25 AM PDT
by
steve50
(You can't put Constitutional protections in a lockbox, repeal the Patriot Act)
To: GYPSY286
HAVE I BEEN HIT BY MBLASTER?NO, BUT FROM HERE IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'VE BEEN HIT BY MUGLYSTICK.
(Just kidding.)
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