I had to reformat!!!
 

I'm quite angry that I had to reformat my computer before I could save some items. I'll be spending probably the weekend to retrieve everything either off my external and/or the internet. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

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That sucks Kevin!

Was it a virus?

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Be glad you had an external hd.;)

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that suck man

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I've had to do that before. In a typical perfect storm comedy of errors, I lost my thesis, all 5 backups of it and the hard drive one day near the end of my Masters. I spent the next week piecing together parts of files I was able to salvage doing various "bit/byte editing methods". Then I had to rewrite all the missing gaps. Made me actually cry. But, it was a manly cry.

Hope it works out for you. Hope you find your computer faster now.

Good Luck

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Mac users don't have these problems. ;)

Queue Mac vs. PC fight

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*Take's Mac side*

Then again no problems with any linux comps.

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OK, it does not happen to Mac users who don't download pirated stuff! :tg

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You mean to tell me pirated software can be risky and might damage a comp?

For shame! That is no way or shape the fault of the OS, be it any OS.

That's like I put a peanut butter sandwich in my CD drive so dell sucks.

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I'm dying, make it stop. :r :r :r :r :r

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:r Just pointing out that it does happen. Cause i'm sure no one here ever pirates software :dance::D

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Oh yea, I won't lie or disagree you can break any OS if you do silly things to it though, just normal usage Macs don't tend to kill them selves like a windows machine does.

It's not a perfect or fail safe OS but sure beats the pants off the boarder line suicidal MS machines.

I hated how it was just a way of life to wipe your machine clear every once and a while here and there.

This is coming from someone who's used all 3 of the major OS's and rather decent working them, no means a pro though.

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Won't argue with you there! I use all three OS flavors pretty regularly and I wouldn't use windows at all if I didn't need it to play the occasional pc game.

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Just get into the habit of loading important files to a flash. After having gotten burned once and then having to reformat I always save important files to my flash,,,the computer can go F itself while I just go ahead and restore everything back to basics or you can make a copy of all your drives which is a pain. Anything important goes into the flash,,,takes two seconds.

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http://darwine.sourceforge.net/

You are welcome :)

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bah, never fun to reformat. Always great to backup, yet usually computer crashes just at the right time when you haven't backed up for a little bit.....never right after saving everything

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I know all about Wine, playing games with it sucks. Big time.

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I have never run anything but Windows. I have also never had a virus or malware. Amazing what a little bit of vigilance can do for you. ;)

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Drat.

Really what games are you having a hard time with?

Sorry I wasn't able to help.