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Article #2681Re: @@@ BACKUP your files NOW !!!!! @@@
From: Phil Essing
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
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The subject matter in your post is not appropriate for this newsgroup. -Phil Masataka Noda wrote in message <362f77fb.397643@news.sprint.ca>... >Hi. I recently had a serious problem with my computer. > >Today, when I was removing the explorer 4.01, suddently >(coincidentally ?), my hard drive stopped. alt+del+ctrl didn't work. >I rebooted the computer and my eyes went blank... "Failed Fixed Disk >0"... christ !!!! Rebooting the computer again and I forced to >reboot from hard drive and I got got the message "Operating System Not >Found." shi* ! I inserted the floopy disk and if floppy disk >worked fine. It worked. I typed "c:\" and didn't work. My brain >went completely blank when I realized I didn't take backup of most of >the files for 3~4 months... tried to take back up just a couple of >days ago but I didn't do it just because... you know what I mean. > >Am I able to survive without computer for a day ?? Of course not. >HELL NO !!!!! I was thinking of sending this computer to get it fix >it... but this takes too much time. Is it possible to buy a new >computer ? Well... I am running out of money. Will I have days >without posting articles into mtl.general and some others ?? No way >!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > >... like I said usual... I was sure I could do something for this >problem WITHOUT having a university degree - bachelor of engineering >or whatever. So... I opened up the box (which was screwed with more >than 10 nails) and saw if anything was funny... (it is not very easy >to see the system inside since it is a laptop. everything is packed >very tightly)... hard drive seemed to be ok... but how could I >check the inside of HDD... one of the plate says QC passed in >1986... well... was it because of age ?? uhh.... my mind was >crazy... not knowing what to do. I almost completely separeted the >entire unit... and umm... I saw something... one of three lines >(it's like the lines connected to internal HDD of desktop but the >scale is much smaller and it looks like a piece of plastic... 0.5cm >width) is not hooked up. Well... I saw the black stripes at the end >but I didn't see same thing for other two. Well... maybe this was >special and shouldn't be connected. Wait a minute... I saw an empty >plug... "maybe this stuff would fit here..." In fact it did. >But which direction it should be ? I had to bet. Oh God... > >I rebooted my computer... no error messages !!!!!!!! >fuh..........ha...............hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa............... >I made it... although I failed to remove explorer completely (ironic >?)... anyways... I took the backup... and everything became fine as >usual. > >I strongly suggest you to take backups... I was too lazy to take it >but if you had backup... you wouldn't be in hell when something >happened to your computer... > >So... in any cases... I would like to say to myself... welcome back >to newsgroups !!!! > > >Regards, > > >______________________________________________________________________ > >M a s a t a k a N o d a, Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada. N� d' ICQ: 15115035 >Infinite Communications� (TM): Il y a un coeur�. Il y a un esprit�. Il y a une voie�. >�tudient @ d'Universit� McGill (environnement) >Indicatif d'appel de radioamateur: VA2QRU & VE7JPN >Membre d'internationale aucun code Morse pour services radioamateur - NCI2014 >C�: masa@radiotelephone.net.PAS_DE_SPAM (SVP enlever/please remove .PAS_DE_SPAM) >http://www.radiotelephone.net (Principale/Universel) >http://www.radiotelephone.net/masataka.htm (Moi !!) >http://www.radiotelephone.net/amateur/ (Radio) >http://www.radiotelephone.net/mcgill/ (Universit� McGill) myth.htm (Mythe) >http://www.radiotelephone.net/essays/ (Essais) > || 24L ---------------------------------------------------- 06R || >Pilote Avion Priv� (jour & nuit): St-Hubert & Dorval INTL (dupuis 1998) >Approuv� pour le decollage... Approuv� pour l'atterrissage... >---:|| 24R --------------------------------------------------- 06L ||:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f504b,f25956ea1f0841ec X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: fc51e,f25956ea1f0841ec X-Google-Attributes: gidfc51e,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,f25956ea1f0841ec X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: 102c8f,f25956ea1f0841ec X-Google-Attributes: gid102c8f,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,f25956ea1f0841ec X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public From: "Phil Essing" <phile@generation.net> Subject: Re: @@@ BACKUP your files NOW !!!!! @@@ Date: 1998/10/22 Message-ID: <70o8kj$9t0$1@supernews.com> X-Deja-AN: 404067643 References: <362f77fb.397643@news.sprint.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Trace: 909092307 ZCZSLWF4G462BCDCDC usenet52.supernews.com Organization: http://www.supernews.com, The World's Usenet: Discussions Start Here Newsgroups: mtl.general,can.general,qc.general,mcgill.general,concordia.general