Computer Nightmares
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JetwingX
iWork for Apple <3
... wow...
the closet thing to a nightmare that i have had is my mom accidentally initializing a partition of her hard drive and corrupting the other two beyond the point of tech tool recognition (omg that sounds geeky technical)
The reason why it is such a big scare for her is because she has colected 3 +/- years worth of [The] Sims stuff and she had just made a really nice house straigh out of the lord of the rings and she has lost it all (for now)
the closet thing to a nightmare that i have had is my mom accidentally initializing a partition of her hard drive and corrupting the other two beyond the point of tech tool recognition (omg that sounds geeky technical)
The reason why it is such a big scare for her is because she has colected 3 +/- years worth of [The] Sims stuff and she had just made a really nice house straigh out of the lord of the rings and she has lost it all (for now)
Arden
Where mah "any" keys at?
I had to wipe this computer several months back. It was a pain in the keester, too.
This computer is 5.5 years old. (This is the G3 I'm talking about.) We got it in February 1998 and we've been using it ever since, and it's been accumulating junk & corruption during all that time. A few months ago, it started getting so bad that common processes were completely inhibited: The CD-ROM drive would only read commercial CD-ROM's, Software Update reset my Internet preferences, the CD burner wouldn't work, etc. So finally I stayed up half the night one night transferring data from this computer to my iMac (which had plenty of space at the time), via 100 MB Zip disks. Wow! What a pain that was, especially considering how long it took to actually read & write to & from the disks.
So I completely back up this hard drive, which is fortunately 4 GB and not impossible to back up via Zip. To actually be able to fix it, I had to boot from the Techtool 3 CD (via the burner *of course*) and use Silverlining Pro on a Zip disk to wipe the hard drive. Then I reinstalled OS 9, upgraded it to 9.2.2, and restored everything from backup, and now it's working well, with only a few glitches. Namely, drag-n-drop doesn't work with some applications (Burn, FileT&C Pro), and the CD-ROM drive still has a little trouble with non-{commercial CD-ROM's}. Sometimes.
So yeah, that's the story of this computer. Well, most of it: we have an 8.4 GB La Cie drive that flakes out from time to time, so we take it offline (and it's been offline for a while now). It's got quite a bit of stuff on it, though it's also plain HFS, which makes for 256 KB allocation blocks. I'd love to replace it, too...
This computer is 5.5 years old. (This is the G3 I'm talking about.) We got it in February 1998 and we've been using it ever since, and it's been accumulating junk & corruption during all that time. A few months ago, it started getting so bad that common processes were completely inhibited: The CD-ROM drive would only read commercial CD-ROM's, Software Update reset my Internet preferences, the CD burner wouldn't work, etc. So finally I stayed up half the night one night transferring data from this computer to my iMac (which had plenty of space at the time), via 100 MB Zip disks. Wow! What a pain that was, especially considering how long it took to actually read & write to & from the disks.
So I completely back up this hard drive, which is fortunately 4 GB and not impossible to back up via Zip. To actually be able to fix it, I had to boot from the Techtool 3 CD (via the burner *of course*) and use Silverlining Pro on a Zip disk to wipe the hard drive. Then I reinstalled OS 9, upgraded it to 9.2.2, and restored everything from backup, and now it's working well, with only a few glitches. Namely, drag-n-drop doesn't work with some applications (Burn, FileT&C Pro), and the CD-ROM drive still has a little trouble with non-{commercial CD-ROM's}. Sometimes.
So yeah, that's the story of this computer. Well, most of it: we have an 8.4 GB La Cie drive that flakes out from time to time, so we take it offline (and it's been offline for a while now). It's got quite a bit of stuff on it, though it's also plain HFS, which makes for 256 KB allocation blocks. I'd love to replace it, too...