XP - Crashed

Atrocities · #1 December 12th, 2004, 12:14 AM

I needed to reboot and well, the IExplore portion of the OS decided to cause problems. Having never faced this before, I opted to stop the reboot and begin to back up my data.

I will know more after I reboot again, but its a safe bet to say that my system if frelled.

I am doing back ups now, but who knows if they will be ok or currupt.

Wish me luck.

Slick · #2 December 12th, 2004, 12:28 AM

Good luck. I sure hope that you have backups of all your important stuff. Also your mods and shipsets. *crosses fingers*

Slick.

Slynky · #3 December 12th, 2004, 12:42 AM

Backups how? I mean, don't you have to be in operational status to do backups? And if in operational status, are you just taking precautions.

Pardon me for being dense.

Suicide Junkie · #4 December 12th, 2004, 01:33 AM

I once had my disk go all wobbly on me (wobblwobbl-ker-tink), but with repeated startups into quick-booting, no-disk-use DOS and a few minutes worth of copying at a time before the disk destabilized and required a power down, I was able to copy it off.

Quite scary at the time; all the best of luck to you on the backups.

Atrocities · #5 December 12th, 2004, 02:20 AM

The reboot went off without a hitch. I don't know what caused the error to occur with windows, but I went ahead and told it to shut down anyways once I finished my back up.

So far it has been working fine.

DeadZone · #6 December 12th, 2004, 05:39 PM

You considered getting a new PC full-stop?
With all the problems you have, might be worth it
Or at least get someone who knows computers to take a look at it

Just outta curiosity, what are your specs for this machine?

mac5732 · #7 December 13th, 2004, 03:36 AM

my son had the same problem, only he let it finish, he then lost everything. after cking with tech support etc, it was found that it was the windows update security program< think it was the 2nd pack or something like that, apparantly when it downloads, it corrupts all the files. Don't know if this caused your problem, but for the above, the only thing I found to prevent it, is to disable your windows update auto program and not to upgrade any of the security packs listed in the updates. He was able to recover about 75% of what he lost by reinstalling the OS, however, he did not have video or audio, He will have to reload all his drivers after he reformats his Hard drive... He installed over the current Version and had to reboot several times before he was able to access his files. He had the window updates on auto XP sucks
Glad I have windows 98 2nd ed, I have problems, but not to the number of headaches he's had with XP

Kevin Arisa · #8 December 14th, 2004, 03:11 AM

I am always hearing about how awful and destructive XP is. It has never given me any problems. Do I have a blessed Version of XP or something? Could it have something to do with keeping it on it's own partition and wiping the C drive twice a year? That was an old habit from 98SE. Is there a major difference between the Home and Professional Versions or something?

Combat Wombat · #9 December 14th, 2004, 04:02 AM

XP has destroyed 2 of my hard drives, I use XP Pro

Fyron · #10 December 14th, 2004, 04:10 AM

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Kevin Arisa said:
I am always hearing about how awful and destructive XP is. It has never given me any problems. Do I have a blessed Version of XP or something? Could it have something to do with keeping it on it's own partition and wiping the C drive twice a year? That was an old habit from 98SE. Is there a major difference between the Home and Professional Versions or something?

XP Pro = garbage heap, XP Home = cesspool. So in summation, yes, there is.

And yes, you have a blessed Version. A separate partition/drive just for the OS is a very, very wise practice for any OS, really.