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Windows Killed my Hard Drive

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Zombie9920:
Right on. For a case...you would probably be best off going to a local computer shop for one of those because the shipping&handling on a case is ridiculous.

You can normally pick up a decent Mid-Tower ATX case with Windows, Neon lights, plain, etc. w/a 400w PSU that has the 12v+ ATX molex for the P4 for around $50.

[ September 29, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]

hm_murdock:
awesome. I'll hit up the local joints. we're kinda poor for local small compute shops around here, even though we're a college town. our most successful local vendor is an Apple reseller, with Best Buy and Circuit City being the next best thing. There's a single small PC retailer, but they're pretty wierd, and have some freakin' ridiculous policies, both before the sale and after.

the best places are in Little Rock, three hours away, but that's still cheaper to drive there than pay shipping

kituhwa:
Thanks for all the input guys, to the PC repair guy, ha ha, yes I'll look into that, it's a good point. My computer is still sitting there with all it's guts hanging out, haven't felt like putting it all back together again since the mighty crash. Besides I need to clean all the dust out of it, once I opened it up a spider had actually made a web inside it. I'm glad I burned MOST of my final work to a CD shortly before the disaster, but there's a lot of stuff I won't be getting back.

The drive I have in there now is my old 4 gigabyte hard drive, yeah I know it's pathetic. Anyway, what happened with that thing was the computer froze during a reinstallation of Win98 leaving me no choice but to shut the thing off. Well naturally there were endless problems when I turned it back on, I made it back to the Windows installation and it all went fine, but the problem is now Windows is on the drive twice.

There's a folder on the c: drive that says "Windows" and another one that says "Windows.000" both are Win98 folders and have all the same junk in them. Sooo...I tried reformatting that drive and doing a clean boot with the boot disk I got when I bought the computer. I reinstalled windows thinking that I had removed the duplicate copy of Windows, but no it's still there.

I don't have any third party software for reformatting the old drive and I don't remember how to do it in DOS, can somebody refresh my memory?

Also, tell me more about this WINE, I haven't read that much about it yet. Only some article about Disney and Pixar moving to Linux for some project and getting annoyed that Photoshop I think, wasn't offered for Linux so they funded a project to have it ported using WINE.

Oh yeah, and if my sister comes through for me some chick she works with is getting rid of her old computer, woo hoo! I get to strip it for parts, man, I'm such a nerd.

alrigh well  yeah, I guess I'm done.

kituhwa:
Really I think the main problem with my computer has been that I've been forcing it to do things it was never meant to.

The poor little guy only has a Pentium II processor, hardly any RAM at all, and I tried running Adobe After Effects on it! Rendering out animations usually took an hour to an hour and a half for an only 10 or 15 second clip. When I'd add a comp to the render que and hit render within like one minute it was already saying "57 percent of 127 megabytes of RAM used" I'm sure you all find that very amusing, as well you should. I only had After Effects 5.0 though, I'd like to get 6.0 Professional, but I should probably wait until I have a better, (newer) computer.

TheQuirk:
This is a bit off-topic, but I also recommend NewEgg. I bought all my computer hardware from them (well, except for case), and they're are totally x-treme.

[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

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