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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: 19 2006-01-25 14:14

>>7 wins the thread
>>1 fails for nuking his prawn by accident
>>1 fails for not having a backup so that this would've been an "oops" instead of an "oh snap"
>>1 fails for not realizing that OPs don't have the same line limit as replies
>>1 *WINS* for owning up to his mistake and being willing to post the story of it
>>17 fails for calling Apple's OS "Linux"

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