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dolariI go through Operating systems like Godzilla tears through a city. Deans computer is on Year 2 of a stable OS. Mind you, his just came out of three months of hibernation.....
A few days ago, I tried burning a DVD of video I had encoded. Oodles of video. LOTS of tapes now ready to be hauled away....when my burner simply refused to burn. I checked around, tried to figure out what program was messing with my burning ability...nada.
So I found out the last thing I burned and the next program I installed - that was a borrowed copy of Norton Ghost 9. I found out it installs it's own burning drivers which notoriously kill other drivers.
No problem! I removed it. Nothing. Did a system restore witch failed. Not a problem! I'll simply restore the backup Norton Ghost 9 made for me! Everything was restored, or so I thought. When the system came back up, it STILL wouldn't system restore back to before I had installed Noton Ghost. So I reinstalled the whole OS again, then copied the non-OS-install backups back to the hard drive. Things work great, till I mount a DVD, that fails. Badly.
After looking carefully - the DVD image was now 4 Megabytes. Down from 4.5 gigabytes. Checking other backup images, I notice virtually all of them have been destroyed, being only between 5 to 15 megabytes. Ho boy. Back a few weeks ago, I noticed wierdness happening on my system. Songs would end before they were done. programs would blue screen. Wasn't a virus that McAfee detected, and Spybot said it was just fine...but still, programs were just failing.
I think what happened was a time I went to defragment a drive and the whole drive was red. After defragmenting, there were still a lot of programs refusing to defragment (One had 250,000 fragments!). I think the defragmenter just choked on some of these files, cutting them off into smaller chunks.
Thankfully, I still have MUCHOS MUCHOS MEGA backups from mid April, to restore my system. Once I get this computer back up to snuff, I'll take those Mid April backups and "overwrite" all the files, to get them all to their full length again. If anything else beterren Mid April and now is screwed, well....they're screwed. I just hope the video files are okay. That was a LOT of encoding, and I'm not watching these movies again....
Today was Dean's Birthday. Well, "yesterday" was Dean's birthday...Thursday. Today is Cinco de Mayo, which in Mexico is Dean's Birthday (Observed). We went shopping for, well, nothing at Kohl's. Then to Bloodbath and Beyond for new bookshelves, Thundercloud for lunch, and HEB for cake. :9
Then the stormies came. And suddenly the truncated files weren't so bad. :D
A few days ago, I tried burning a DVD of video I had encoded. Oodles of video. LOTS of tapes now ready to be hauled away....when my burner simply refused to burn. I checked around, tried to figure out what program was messing with my burning ability...nada.
So I found out the last thing I burned and the next program I installed - that was a borrowed copy of Norton Ghost 9. I found out it installs it's own burning drivers which notoriously kill other drivers.
No problem! I removed it. Nothing. Did a system restore witch failed. Not a problem! I'll simply restore the backup Norton Ghost 9 made for me! Everything was restored, or so I thought. When the system came back up, it STILL wouldn't system restore back to before I had installed Noton Ghost. So I reinstalled the whole OS again, then copied the non-OS-install backups back to the hard drive. Things work great, till I mount a DVD, that fails. Badly.
After looking carefully - the DVD image was now 4 Megabytes. Down from 4.5 gigabytes. Checking other backup images, I notice virtually all of them have been destroyed, being only between 5 to 15 megabytes. Ho boy. Back a few weeks ago, I noticed wierdness happening on my system. Songs would end before they were done. programs would blue screen. Wasn't a virus that McAfee detected, and Spybot said it was just fine...but still, programs were just failing.
I think what happened was a time I went to defragment a drive and the whole drive was red. After defragmenting, there were still a lot of programs refusing to defragment (One had 250,000 fragments!). I think the defragmenter just choked on some of these files, cutting them off into smaller chunks.
Thankfully, I still have MUCHOS MUCHOS MEGA backups from mid April, to restore my system. Once I get this computer back up to snuff, I'll take those Mid April backups and "overwrite" all the files, to get them all to their full length again. If anything else beterren Mid April and now is screwed, well....they're screwed. I just hope the video files are okay. That was a LOT of encoding, and I'm not watching these movies again....
Today was Dean's Birthday. Well, "yesterday" was Dean's birthday...Thursday. Today is Cinco de Mayo, which in Mexico is Dean's Birthday (Observed). We went shopping for, well, nothing at Kohl's. Then to Bloodbath and Beyond for new bookshelves, Thundercloud for lunch, and HEB for cake. :9
Then the stormies came. And suddenly the truncated files weren't so bad. :D
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They've also grown to hate Norton/Symantec. Given the reputation Microsoft's products have in some circles, it's perhaps saying something when THEY consider a company's products to be too problematic.
Admittedly, what little I got from the Microsoft grapevine dried up about two years ago.
SL, who salvaged his partitions but gave up on his operating system install. Fortunately, his /home partition (and virtually all of his data and settings) didn't need to be bothered by the reinstall, mostly leaving him with apt-getting things as he notices they're missing and resuming trying to figure out how to get MIDI working.