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#1 Post by El_Listo » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:44 am

That's like creating a golem, creepy stuff.

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#2 Post by Angelus3K » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:56 am

Well.. posting from Debs dads PC at the moment.

What a disaster!!!

The new PC works fine and is amazingly fast!! The guy who built for me just put a copy of XP onto it to run benchmarks etc but hasnt been activated. So I tried to install my copy of windows and chose a clean install in which it copies files to the HD reboots and installs windows from DOS for some reason it just kept blue screening (maybe it cant see the SATA HD in DOS?) but then if thats true you cant do a clean install of windows on a SATA disk...

Anyway so I booted into DOS with a Win 98 boot disk and Fdisk'd the HD and formatted it (this was before I found out that DOS cant see SATA drives, hey I'm new to SATA) and so I bloody formatted OUR 200GB IDE drive with all our stuff on and ALL of Katherine's photos and videos on it!!

Needless to say I was devastated!! Luckily I ran a data recovery program over night and all seems to be back (although there must be some things missing/lost).

So does anyone know how to do a clean install of windows on a SATA disk??

EDIT: I see I need to hit F6 during the boot process and install 3rd party drivers for the SATA, I'll try that.

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#3 Post by Quest For Glory Fan » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:35 pm

that's a disaster indeed. Glad to hear you got most things back and I hope windows works FOR the customer in this case  ;)

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#4 Post by VampD3 » Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:11 pm

The funny thing was him telling me that! lol

"Babe, erm.... Ive sort of formatted your HD with Katherines pics and Videos on there"  :lol

I was gobsmacked I thought my whole life had been wiped lol

Lucky though like he said we managed to get it back!  :)

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#5 Post by Brainiac » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:31 pm

This is why there are cliches about men and instruction manuals, Angelus.  Good to know you came out relatively unscathed, at least. :D

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#6 Post by VampD3 » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:06 pm

Just thought I'd let you guys know, Katherine can walk now!!! Took her first steps last Sunday (18th) She's walking everywhere now! Just in time for christmas!

Ooh and Happy christmas everyone! Hope you all have a fab christmas and don't eat too much!  ;)

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#7 Post by Swift » Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:48 pm

Congrats.

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#8 Post by Quest For Glory Fan » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:52 am

Congrats indeed. Last I checked she couldn't even crawl. Quick learner I say.

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#9 Post by Angelus3K » Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:31 am

She still cant crawl lol!

I guess she doesnt need to know though as she's running round all over the place!

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#10 Post by VampD3 » Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:26 pm

yeah she went straight from bum shuffling to walking!  :)

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#11 Post by Spikey » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:03 pm

OMG that's always so cute when the little ones learn how to walk. They are usually so excited and proud and explorative.  :D

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#12 Post by Angelus3K » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:28 pm

Finally had the time to sort out the PC!! I found that the SATA drivers werent being found on the disk as I had knocked the IDE cable out of the floppy drive lol so the discs werent even being read!!

Sitting on a fresh install of XP now though!

Ahhh smells GOOD!!

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#13 Post by Angelus3K » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:30 pm

Broomie...uh...Jamie why did you change your name?? The other one rocked!!

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#14 Post by FatherGhostface » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:37 pm

Broomie has a two names! GASP! I want two names, I know one will be Charlie and the second one will be Mufasa! BWAHAHAHAHA!

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#15 Post by Spikey » Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:48 pm

Let's sing the introduction song of King's Quest VII together.

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#16 Post by Broomie » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:44 pm

Heh, I've just found out that all the Harry Potter films, the first Star Wars film, Sleepy Hollow and most of the James Bond films were filmed in Leavesden, which is the studio I drive past basically every day. We're planning a college trip there aswell, should be pretty sweet.

And I changed my name to Jamie because I don't really like Broomie anymore. I tell my friends to stop calling me it aswell and stick to Jamie. Why? I'm just tired of it.

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#17 Post by Brainiac » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:39 am

Changing your logon won't help, my friend; you're still stuck with the jokes concerning a specific cleaning instrument. :p

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#18 Post by Erpy » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:21 am

I kinda know what it's like. Even after hanging out with them in real life 24/7 for weeks on end, AGD1 and AGD2 STILL referred to me as Erpy.

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#19 Post by Spikey » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:57 pm

Random rant.

Whatever happened to The Knight?

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#20 Post by Brainiac » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:08 am

Spikey wrote:Whatever happened to The Knight?
You're not the first to wonder or to ask.

And I don't think anyone around here knows for sure (or, if they do, they're respecting TK's right to privacy).

His only appearance in the last year was a brief one after I baited him with the Hundred Yard War (Ohio State vs. Michigan) in this thread (page 2, more than halfway down).

And now that you've reminded me, Spikey...Blackthorne!  Where's my money? :lol

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#21 Post by Blackthorne519 » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:19 am

Brainiac wrote:
Spikey wrote:Whatever happened to The Knight?
You're not the first to wonder or to ask.

And I don't think anyone around here knows for sure (or, if they do, they're respecting TK's right to privacy).

His only appearance in the last year was a brief one after I baited him with the Hundred Yard War (Ohio State vs. Michigan) in this thread (page 2, more than halfway down).

And now that you've reminded me, Spikey...Blackthorne! Where's my money? :lol
The check's in the mail.


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#22 Post by Broomie » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:19 am

Good job on the new forums, Navy Nukem.

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#23 Post by navynuke04 » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:15 pm

Thanks. I was up pretty late making the switch.

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#24 Post by Gronagor » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:46 pm

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#25 Post by Music Head » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:25 am

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