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Real computer horror story

Name: Alphie 2006-01-22 19:12

Here's the situation: You're using your dual-boot freeBSD/windows XP computer normally which contains two partitions a C drive and a D drive. The C drive is composed of the system, small programs such as firefox, limewire and vlc, and other small, disposable files. Now on the other hand your D drive is composed of anime, porn, games such as counter-strike and unreal tournament, and miscellaneous files (more porno and anime) which you have collected over the years and are so neumerous in fact that it would take years to replace. Whilst using the computer normally you notice it's moving slower and certain programs are crashing, deducting it's due to the lack of restarting your normally restart, thinking it will solve your problem. The computer starts up normally displaying the intel pentium 4 processor with hyper threading screen and then moves onto the freeBSD boot manager. You select drive C as usual as it contains your operating system. You see the Windows XP Home Edition loading screen and usual and when it dissapears and is replaced by nothingness, your computer then restarts and the intel screen is displayed once more, you continue with the same process in desperation but are only faced by dissapointment by the fact that your windows system is fucked. You try the option "Do not restart upon system failure" but are faced with a blue screen of death displaying an error  with your log-in screen! You quickly pull out your Windows XP boot disk and whip into action. After 20 minutes of installing and formatting your operating system is back to normal and your precious D drive is still in tact. The problem lies in the fact that your freeBSD boot loader becomes corrupt after ever re-format of your C drive and so you just have to re-install freeBSD. You pull out your freeBSD bootdisk and continue normally, setting your C drive to bootable and re-installing all your packs which takes the course of about thirty minutes to an hour. At the end of your freeBSD installation yougo to do some quick post-install config. You go into your fdisk utility to make sure your boot manager is correctly configured and it is so you press the Q key for finished, only it doesn't exit but instead it makes all the partitions go away you're confused and look at the instructions on the screen and notice that instead of pressing "Q" for finished you pushed "A" for "use all of disk" you quickly push "U" for "Undo all changes" but are faced with a "You're changes have already been written and cannot be undone!!!." Instead of going into your freeBSD operating system after the install you frantically restart and your fears are then realized when instead of showing the boot manager you are faced with the freeBSD start up. Thinking that all your years of data are gone in a second, reformatted with the accursed freeBSD operating system. You start to cry and damn your life as you mourn the loss of all that necessary data.

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Name: Alphie 2006-01-22 20:02

You reach for your Sony Vaio recovery disk and put it in then quickly rush to the option "recover C drive" then wait as it goes from 1 to 100%. Hoping that it did something you restart praying to god (which you don't beleive in) to bring back your D drive. The computer restarts and goes into the windows XP post-install config screen where it tells you to set up your accounts and accept the EULA agreement. The computer then restarts and the freeBSD boot manager is once again corrupt. You reach for your freeBSD boot disk and make sure to take a domino stacker's caution as you install. You goto the fdisk utility and see a light of hope, 3 partitions show up, the main VAIO one, your C drive and what looks like it could be your D drive! You Frantically set up the C drive to bootable and configure freebsd and before installing freeBSD first does the operations on the boot manager, you don't wait for the finish, instead you quickly turn off the power after the boot config and hope to god your por... err valuable data is still intact. The computer starts up, your hear your heart pounding, the Intel screen shows up quickly followed by the boot manager. You check to see 4 partitions and grow cheerful but not yet out of desperation. Since it is the first restart after your format it takes long - too long. You start pulling at your hair and bitting on your shirt until it reaches the desktop screen. You ravish the mouse, quickly right clicking on the start button and opening the explorer. You click on the D drive which since only seconds have passed since your desktop appeared takes seconds that seems like minutes to load. To your hearts content all your files are still there! You thank god you bought a VAIO with such an exceptional emergency recovery kit and resume to beat... i mean watch anime to your hearts content after the biggest scare of your life. (Didn't say it was a VAIO 'cuz it might've ruined the suspense if some of you know how thuroughly the emergency kits actually recover) And you live happily ever after. The end. What a great ending! This actually happened to me yesterday night and since it was so late i had to sleep thinking my data was gone to wake up the next day with a clear head ready to trouble shoot the problem.

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