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| Thread ID: 62160 | 2005-09-28 19:21:00 | Techs Disasters | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 391788 | 2005-09-29 10:16:00 | Sad story time... When I told him files were unfindable and unrecoverable (we looked at option of recovery software, but it had been 10 days since the XP had been installed; games etc had been installed in meantime), poor guy went into minor state of shock on the phone. you should have given it a try - there are free recovery software available. i have recovered files dating backing 6mths+ - formatted, deleted everything & still got a lot back. you missed out on a big fat sale - i've just charged someone $500+ for getting all their mp3s & photos back... & did a disservice to your client. |
quarry (252) | ||
| 391789 | 2005-09-29 10:46:00 | and it would have taken you an hour, impressive :thumbs: | Prescott (11) | ||
| 391790 | 2005-09-29 11:40:00 | and it would have taken you an hour, impressive :thumbs: no, it took half a day, well, at least the 3 different software i used did. i was watching around the world in 80 days ;) |
quarry (252) | ||
| 391791 | 2005-09-29 12:16:00 | Data can still be recoverable. This is why to be truely safe, all the american government agencies recommend you write over the HDD with random data a grand total of seven times :) Nothing beats when I was building my first PC from scratch. Took me two hours to take my time and assemble it properly and securely in the case. Hit the power button but nothing happened :( One by one I checked all the parts (as much as I could in another PC) and found they were all working. Plugged it all back in and still no go. I decided to check the back of the Power Supply and make sure it wasnt on 110v. While looking around the back, I fiddled for the front of the PC and found the button to turn it on. I accidentally pressed the Reset button which fired it up! Turns out that after 4 1/2 hours of trying the parts out etc, that the Case I had purchased had the power + reset cables improperly labelled! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 391792 | 2005-09-29 19:37:00 | Well I'm not a 'pro' tech (don't do it for a living), but know more than is good for me and have assembled a few boxes. My worst/most embarrassing disaster was when ADSL first came out. Went and bought an external router, followed the instructions (ie... read ALL the instructions) and after 3 days of trying could not get the damn thing to connect to the web. Tried everything I could think of... uninstall reinstall, new power cord even and admitted defeat. Got an IT aquaintence around to look at it, after fiddling around for an hour with no luck he suddenly realised that I had not plugged the connection from the phone into the back of the router. I humbly admitted my stupidity and paid him accordingly for his time. Moral of the story... check the simple things first because it's probably a fault with the idiot installer :( I haven't had any such disasters since... mostly thanks to PF1 :D |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 391793 | 2005-09-29 20:29:00 | After reading all of the above, I think I will leave our computers alone & continue to rely on Mr Metla. PJ :confused: :confused: | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 391794 | 2005-09-29 20:44:00 | Well I still think I take a lot of beating. 1: Snapped of the clip holding the M/B battery.After Listening to all the advice on PF1 I decided the best fix would be a new motherboard. 2: Got new board and a tube of paste. Put half the tube neatly spread over top of CPU. Put heat sink back on. Gazed in bewilderment at all the paste that had been squeezed out. 3: Removed M/B and gave it and CPU a good wash with petrol. 4: Bought a new M/B and CPU !!! 5: Installed them with minimal amount of paste. Good :D 6: Computer wouldn't boot. 7: Removed CPU. And looked at bent and broken pins :( 8: Bought another M/B and CPU. 9: This time I did it all properly and it worked. :D :D :D 10: And it's still working At least I now know how to replace M/B |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 391795 | 2005-09-29 21:11:00 | you should have given it a try - there are free recovery software available. i have recovered files dating backing 6mths+ - formatted, deleted everything & still got a lot back. you missed out on a big fat sale - i've just charged someone $500+ for getting all their mp3s & photos back... & did a disservice to your client.I did ring and advised the client advising them of this procedure, costs, chances of recovery, etc. He was the one that made the final call. If a file system is changed from FAT32 to NTFS (as it had been) would any of the data been recoverable? LMAO JJJJJ omg My worst moment was here at home.... anyone who knows me knows i hate working on 9x based machines (95, 98, ME).... mainly due to drivers, and setup issues. Would probably be in part coz I learnt on XP. Anyway, was setting up partners machine for network. Had checked IPs (static), gateway, netmask, DNS etc etc multiple times. Still couldn't pick it up from my computer. Had gone thorough Device Manager, made sure all was working, no errors... Finally flipped out at it and was sitting back in the chair with hands rubbing forehead going why the *#* & is this #%*$ing thing not working; happened to look down and noticed the ethernet cable wasnt plugged in. Plugged it in and it went perfect :blush: |
Myth (110) | ||
| 391796 | 2005-09-29 23:54:00 | not a tech, but still a horribly botched hardware story 1. Decide to speed up computer (Couple of months back, AMD k-5 116mhz, 32MB rAM) 2. Buy 64mb RAM and K-6 233mhz for $40 3. Install RAM 4. Take out old CPU 5. attempt to install new one not realising a few pins are bent 6. attempt to straighten them up 7. It goes in after a little (!) pushing but I forget to put on thermal greese 8. buy 10cm syringe of thermal greese 9. proceed to put all 10cm of thermal greese on CPU 10. realise dinky little fan is not enough 11. buy new fan 12. Realise capacitor is blocking the fan from installing 13. buy tin snips to remove clip that fan uses that is blovking it 14. tin snips are no good 15. get hacksaw out and remove clip 16. get the protruding metal out only to realise that the cpu is too bulky for fan to fit 17. finally manage to install fan That was definetly the day from hell. All up spent $98. So much for a "cheap" upgrade |
Edward (31) | ||
| 391797 | 2005-09-30 01:07:00 | Nothing ever goes wrong for me....apart from that one time... But they can always get another Grandmother. |
Metla (12) | ||
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