OT: Computer's...gotta hate 'em.

[Renegade 13]

Today I was repairing the power supply on my computer...unfortunately in the process of doing this, I restarted and shut off the computer many times, and not the way they like it. Using the power button to kill it quite often. Unfortunately, when I then proceeded to restart the computer after I was finished, the computer had this nice, pleasant message for me, something along the lines of "You didn't shut down your computer properly, so here's some options:

Restart, safe mode.
Restart, normally.

Naturally, I pick Normal. Whoops, sorry, no can do. Continues the boot and restarts the computer. Brings me to the same screen. Alright, normal didn't work so I'll try Safe. Nope, can't do that either. Restarts the computer and brings me to that same infernal screen again. Nothing I could think of doing next, so I inserted the "XP Home Recovery CD" that came with the computer. No problem, it does its thing, starts reinstalling Windows. Great, no problem. Except now comes the problem...it begins formatting the hard drive. I had absolutely no backups for anything on my hard drive. Nothing. At all. Zippo. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

So now I have a functioning computer, but with nothing at all on it. Nothing. Oh many things can be installed, sure. Of course, all my pictures, partially created shipsets, original shipset files, everything is gone. I really really really really hate windows. There's no reason for the g**damn thing to f*** up this bad just because it wasn't shut down properly a few times. I just wanna beat my head into a really solid surface for a while. But I won't. I'll go reinstall what I can, and beat my head on a wall after that's done for all the stuff I can't replace...