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| Thread ID: 25750 | 2002-10-11 04:16:00 | Stupid Things You've Done | madmusician66 (1030) | Press F1 |
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| 88025 | 2002-10-11 04:16:00 | Hey More out of curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering what stupid things people have done (preferably something to do with computing - as this is a computing forum) |
madmusician66 (1030) | ||
| 88026 | 2002-10-11 04:21:00 | Starting With Myself: I copied around 2.5gigs of data from C: Drive to D: Drive in order to format C: drive for a new windows install. After the time I spent copying the data between drives I booted into dos and started the format... Unfortunately on D: drive... Don't play stupid with me as I'm better at it and you'll always loose |
madmusician66 (1030) | ||
| 88027 | 2002-10-11 04:33:00 | Any time you answer "yes" to an "are you sure?" prompt will get you that result. You are sure ... until 1 millisecond after you've hit the <Enter> key. You're certain you meant "no" after it has zapped the blocks which would have given a chance of recovery. I never make mistakes. I have catastrophes. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 88028 | 2002-10-11 04:41:00 | my mistake could be made by any new techie :-) I will out line the problem and see who can spot my stupid mistake... way back in 1995-96 I got a new pentium 200mmx system with a 1gb hard drive I set the hard drive on the secondary IDE cable as a slave and put my cdrom drive on the priamry IDE as master. when i booted the system BIOS detected both IDE devices and it was looking good. I went in to dos 6.22 and ran fdisk to patition the drive (2*500Mb) I saved the table to the drive, exited fdisk and rebooted. when I tryed to format c: was not a valid drive letter... I went back in to fdisk and found the drive had no patitions defined.(strange I did set them right) I repationed about 10 times and had exactily the same problem every time and then I get a friend to have a look and he tryed about 10 times too. can anyone see my mistake?? my answer in an hour or two :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 88029 | 2002-10-11 04:57:00 | So there's a fault in fdisk ... it must do the old dos trick of writing and not checking that it has written correctly. Unless you selected hard disk 2, it wrote the partition tables, blank FATs, etc to the CD. No error messages. Nothing written. (If I'd written that programme ...) But you still would have had no C disk ... the drive on IDE2 would be D: (I think ... ;-)). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 88030 | 2002-10-11 05:35:00 | Hey Graham Now that you mention it, it makes sense ?:| ?:| ?:| I know this because on the days I decide to do something stupid (install linux - no offence to you linux lovers) I then come back to Windows and use FDisk to resort out my drives... Takes me a damn hour to get it sorted Thanks PS: I'm not stupid - I'm only 15 |
madmusician66 (1030) | ||
| 88031 | 2002-10-11 06:09:00 | don't ya just love it when you get the IDE cables connected to the wrong IDE port ;-) worse thing i did was spend 3 whole days installing windows and other programs and forgot about the SB16 emulation bug and corupt all the data on the drive...opps. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 88032 | 2002-10-11 06:55:00 | Ok madmusician, you have a long way to go, when you get to 60 mumble mumble, you say and do stupid things all the time. Like today f'rinstance, thought Id clear out the remains of Zone Alarm from the registry having installed Kerio recently. Absentmindedly also started deleting references to Grisofts AVG :) . So had to restore the registry. Also got my knickers in a twist over extended and expanded memory until I realised that my memory was rapidly failing, not good at all :( |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 88033 | 2002-10-11 06:56:00 | Stupid computer things that I have done ... oh where to start! :-( 1. accidently backed up the entire C drive, which by the way, will not fit onto a CD. 2. knocked the C drive plug out whilst installing more RAM, then getting the cold sweats when no operating system is found upon re-booting. 3. Managed to completely and royally stuff up a "repair/removal" of IE. Even my brother who is a computer system engineer was impressed with the resulting mess. 4. Ummm ... well I am about to make a post on that one ....... :8} |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 88034 | 2002-10-11 07:06:00 | yes Graham L I sent three days writing patition tables to the cdrom drive :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
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