OverClocked ReMix...

Kitashi · #11 04-07-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by RocketSniper

I wish I had made more copies of my FL folder now. Figured three would be enough, you know?

Are they all on the same drive? I only have one external hard drive, so I can only really have two copies of my stuff in the case of hardware/OS problems. My CD burner broke a while back, so now I can't back files up on CD, either.

RocketSniper · #12 04-08-2009, 04:59 AM

Two on the 200 gig (in case one got corrupted but the drive was fine) and one on the 500 gig, in case the 200 gig drive failed. Didn't forsee both failing within a week. Pro tip: if you crawl around inside your computer, don't be clumsy. This thread serves as a good warning for people needing to back up files... Also, the scan is now on cluster 64.5 million-ish, and still has another 60 millionish to go.so... day four of the scan and it's still ridiculous lol

RocketSniper · #13 04-08-2009, 05:20 PM

Update, the undelete program froze, so I repartitioned all of the drives after backing what little I had left up to an external hard drive. Windows 32 CDs still bullshitted me for a while the following prompt

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Setup cannot find a previous version of windows installed on your computer.  To continue, setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this product.

Please insert one of the following windows product CDs into the CD-ROM drive: (Abridged...) XP Home (Full version), XP Pro (Fll version), Windows 2000 professional, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 95, or NT Workstation 3.51

It rejected XP x32 with no SPs, and XP x32 with SP 3, finally got it running with an SP 1a disc. In any case, windows is finally working again.

Now to recover the data... Anybody heard of any freeware better than GetDataBack? After searching around online for a bit, it turns out a lot of other people had problems with it freezing and taking two weeks on fairly medium - small sized disks.

Once again, thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, it's been a great help to getting me back on my feet.

Kitashi · #14 04-08-2009, 05:58 PM

Off the top of my head, there's recuva by Piriform (people who made CCleaner). I've never tried it to see how well it works, and I don't know if it's be able to recover files from a repartition, but you can try it.

Zarmakuizz · #15 04-08-2009, 07:39 PM

I just heard about TestDisk, who looks like to be a good tool.

prophetik music · #16 04-08-2009, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RocketSniper

Update, the undelete program froze, so I repartitioned all of the drives after backing what little I had left up to an external hard drive. Windows 32 CDs still bullshitted me for a while the following prompt

Code:

Setup cannot find a previous version of windows installed on your computer.  To continue, setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this product.

Please insert one of the following windows product CDs into the CD-ROM drive: (Abridged...) XP Home (Full version), XP Pro (Fll version), Windows 2000 professional, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 95, or NT Workstation 3.51

It rejected XP x32 with no SPs, and XP x32 with SP 3, finally got it running with an SP 1a disc. In any case, windows is finally working again.

Now to recover the data... Anybody heard of any freeware better than GetDataBack? After searching around online for a bit, it turns out a lot of other people had problems with it freezing and taking two weeks on fairly medium - small sized disks.

Once again, thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, it's been a great help to getting me back on my feet.

ah!

it's because you don't have a full version of windows on your disc. you've got an upgrade-only disc, requiring a previous validated version of windows in order to install.

RocketSniper · #17 04-12-2009, 07:21 AM

Wow, awesome, OCR has deleted my post three times now. Finally up and running again, and I'm not retyping my essay(s) again. the SP3 disk comes with windows, still no idea why it's asking for the other disks to proceed.

500 gig drive died, windows / bios no longer even recognizes it as a drive. Before it died though, I ran the Seagate HD health tools on it - 7500 hours of run time. Five hours a day for four years, not too bad.

Also, I'd recommend Recova out of all of the listed recovery programs, it's fast, simple, and works. to everyone that's helped so far in this thread, I've managed to recover all of the lost information that I wanted to recover, and have managed to get windows reinstalled / everything reformatted and such. Thanks much!

Ronyn · #18 04-12-2009, 05:57 PM

Sounds like I'm too late to really be of any help, but yeah it sounds like you were using upgrade discs and not full retail copies. What nobody has mentioned yet is why you even had 64bit in the first place. 4 gigs of RAM is the maximum XP 32bit can address, and should be what you use, 64 bit with your specs is a complete waste, not to mention the lousy 64 bit support that exists for many applications in this environment, which I would not be surprised was the cause of your slowdown if your hardware and OS turn out fine. Also, while a chkdsk in windows isn't always definitive, it's faster than some of the detailed scans you're trying, might consider that as well. Restoration 2514 (google it) is also a handy tool for recovering in XP, no trials or any of that crap. Anyway, I troubleshoot slow systems all the time, shoot me a PM if you ever need help.

prophetik music · #19 04-12-2009, 10:16 PM

again, just like the last 64-bit OS question, you're completely wrong. no 32-bit computer can actually access all 4 gigs due to video ram and addressing problems within the x86 architecture.

do you really do system troubleshooting? i'd be surprised since you really don't know what you're talking about beyond the 'lol i use computers' phase.

Ronyn · #20 04-14-2009, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by the prophet of mephisto

again, just like the last 64-bit OS question, you're completely wrong. no 32-bit computer can actually access all 4 gigs due to video ram and addressing problems within the x86 architecture.

do you really do system troubleshooting? i'd be surprised since you really don't know what you're talking about beyond the 'lol i use computers' phase.

Ouch, well yeah I admit I didn't fully understand the hardware limitation in the other post, I do feel pretty stupid about that. But I definitely know from experience how impractical 64 bit upgrading is right now. Unless you know for sure the support is there from all the necessary publishers, it's ridiculous to do for 4 GB of RAM, totally not worth it, just trade one problem for another. But thanks for the blanket "wrong stupid ass doucebag!" post, always helpful in the help forum.