calculon000
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I lost it all, my soul was formatted.
Ok, so let me start from the beggining.
When I was young, about 7 or 8, I played this adventure game called Dreamweb. Dreamweb is, in my opinion, the best cyberpunk game ever made. Anyway, I've tried may times to try to play it over the years, with no success (I couldn't find it). I have my own computer, which I earned every penny for by working at McDonald's in 2002. It runs windows xp, and every so often it get riddled with viruses and I have to format it. After a few formats, I decided to store the stuff I wanted to keep in a seperate "backup" partition on my hard drive. I kept 18 gigs of music files, games, and apps like norton anti-virus and such on it. So much data, that I would need over 10 CDRW's to back it all up, so I never bothered to back it up externally of my cvomputer. Big mistake, as you'll find out after reading this some more.
Anyway, I try everything under the sun to play this dreamweb game, as the way Winxp handles memory and such is just too different that what this 1991 game is used to to run. Several dos emulators, programs that try to trick it into thinking its on an old comp, every little winxp setting tweak, all to no avail.
So about a year ago, one of my friends gives me one of his old computers, or rather a pile of parts that is put together to form a computer, out of his vast collection. I take it home, set it up, it gives me some error about a disk I/O error. Thinking it means the hard drive, I put it in my gerage for a year.
A week ago, I tried to set it up again, and fix the hard drive. After several tries, parts from my school that my computer science teacher gave me, and helpful advice from the good people at NMA, it finally ran and accepted win95. Turns out all that was wrong with it was a faulty floppy drive, which I replaced. The hard drive was fine.
Still with me? I promise I'll get to the point soon of why this was the worst day of my life.
So Install dreamweb on this P1. The game runs! I was estatic, but the sound didn't work. After finishing the game once, which only took like 3 hours total (It's a short game), I tried to get the sound working on the old computer for it. (The sound still worked in win95)
So yesterday, while searching for a matrix screen-saver, I came across a site with some paticularly evil spyware, which would disable the ability to close any internet explorer windows. Norton 2003 can't seem to get rid of this offending process, niether can ad-aware. I figure its finally time for another format.
Then I think, "Hey, maybe I can install win95 on my new comp whle I'm at it!" so I can install dreamweb to there and maybe make the sound work. So I back up all my stuff into my backup partition, and then boot in dos. I notice that fdisk isn't recognising my hard drive properly, saying that it in only 8gigs big with only one partition, when in reality it is 60 gigs big with my main and backup partitions. So I tell it to make a new dos partition anyway, figuring it wouldn't touch my backup partition, as it is probably reading the first 8 gigs of my hard drive, and my backup partition is at the end of the hard drive.
So I create a new 1 gig dos partition, then attempt to install win95, afterwhich I plan to install winxp on another partition, thereby creating a boot menu that lets me choose between 95 and xp when I start the computer up. That was the plan, but win95 refused to instal to the new dos partion. So I try to install windows xp again to see if I can move my backup files to another computer in my house, then format my whole hard drive, but when the windows xp setup displayed the promt to install to a selected partition, it says that my hard drive is one, unformatted, 57 gig partition.
My backup partition was gone, the only choice I had was to format and intall.
Everything is gone, my hacked games, 9 gigs of music, my hacked apps, my funny forum pictures, my internet favorites, and lots of otehr, valueble files.
All of the above is replacible, no huge deal.
But also on there, was my irreplacible stuff. my c++ programs that I've been working on, and most importantly, ALL the flash projects I had. Every little flash thing I've ever done.
Including Fallout Tycoon: Rebirth
The shareware data recovery software I just downloaded has yet to yeild a single byte of the 18 gigs I had in my backup, even though it claims to be able to recover files through a format.
All this just so I could have sound on that dreamweb game. The universe hates me.
WORST. DAY. EVER.
Ok, so let me start from the beggining.
When I was young, about 7 or 8, I played this adventure game called Dreamweb. Dreamweb is, in my opinion, the best cyberpunk game ever made. Anyway, I've tried may times to try to play it over the years, with no success (I couldn't find it). I have my own computer, which I earned every penny for by working at McDonald's in 2002. It runs windows xp, and every so often it get riddled with viruses and I have to format it. After a few formats, I decided to store the stuff I wanted to keep in a seperate "backup" partition on my hard drive. I kept 18 gigs of music files, games, and apps like norton anti-virus and such on it. So much data, that I would need over 10 CDRW's to back it all up, so I never bothered to back it up externally of my cvomputer. Big mistake, as you'll find out after reading this some more.
Anyway, I try everything under the sun to play this dreamweb game, as the way Winxp handles memory and such is just too different that what this 1991 game is used to to run. Several dos emulators, programs that try to trick it into thinking its on an old comp, every little winxp setting tweak, all to no avail.
So about a year ago, one of my friends gives me one of his old computers, or rather a pile of parts that is put together to form a computer, out of his vast collection. I take it home, set it up, it gives me some error about a disk I/O error. Thinking it means the hard drive, I put it in my gerage for a year.
A week ago, I tried to set it up again, and fix the hard drive. After several tries, parts from my school that my computer science teacher gave me, and helpful advice from the good people at NMA, it finally ran and accepted win95. Turns out all that was wrong with it was a faulty floppy drive, which I replaced. The hard drive was fine.
Still with me? I promise I'll get to the point soon of why this was the worst day of my life.
So Install dreamweb on this P1. The game runs! I was estatic, but the sound didn't work. After finishing the game once, which only took like 3 hours total (It's a short game), I tried to get the sound working on the old computer for it. (The sound still worked in win95)
So yesterday, while searching for a matrix screen-saver, I came across a site with some paticularly evil spyware, which would disable the ability to close any internet explorer windows. Norton 2003 can't seem to get rid of this offending process, niether can ad-aware. I figure its finally time for another format.
Then I think, "Hey, maybe I can install win95 on my new comp whle I'm at it!" so I can install dreamweb to there and maybe make the sound work. So I back up all my stuff into my backup partition, and then boot in dos. I notice that fdisk isn't recognising my hard drive properly, saying that it in only 8gigs big with only one partition, when in reality it is 60 gigs big with my main and backup partitions. So I tell it to make a new dos partition anyway, figuring it wouldn't touch my backup partition, as it is probably reading the first 8 gigs of my hard drive, and my backup partition is at the end of the hard drive.
So I create a new 1 gig dos partition, then attempt to install win95, afterwhich I plan to install winxp on another partition, thereby creating a boot menu that lets me choose between 95 and xp when I start the computer up. That was the plan, but win95 refused to instal to the new dos partion. So I try to install windows xp again to see if I can move my backup files to another computer in my house, then format my whole hard drive, but when the windows xp setup displayed the promt to install to a selected partition, it says that my hard drive is one, unformatted, 57 gig partition.
My backup partition was gone, the only choice I had was to format and intall.
Everything is gone, my hacked games, 9 gigs of music, my hacked apps, my funny forum pictures, my internet favorites, and lots of otehr, valueble files.
All of the above is replacible, no huge deal.
But also on there, was my irreplacible stuff. my c++ programs that I've been working on, and most importantly, ALL the flash projects I had. Every little flash thing I've ever done.
Including Fallout Tycoon: Rebirth
The shareware data recovery software I just downloaded has yet to yeild a single byte of the 18 gigs I had in my backup, even though it claims to be able to recover files through a format.
All this just so I could have sound on that dreamweb game. The universe hates me.
WORST. DAY. EVER.
