Anyone A Computer Whiz ?

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

The EXACT same thing happened to me three weeks ago! Sorry, but your computer is ****ed if what happened to me is any indication, my love. I had to delete my hard drive completely (I got to backup a lot of it, though) and then reinstall every bloody program including Windows. It was a nightmare.

Oh GREAT. Did this happen to you while the computer was on ? Or when you tried to start it up ? I bet you were lucky enough to have a working cd-rom at the time. Seeing as it is a holiday, I doubt CompUsa or Fry's is even open so I can get a new cdrom. Nightmare. I don't know how to do any of this stuff. I may just call the computer guy and have him do it all. Drag. Lucky I have this lame old desktop.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by sparky

Oh GREAT. Did this happen to you while the computer was on ? Or when you tried to start it up ? I bet you were lucky enough to have a working cd-rom at the time. Seeing as it is a holiday, I doubt CompUsa or Fry's is even open so I can get a new cdrom. Nightmare. I don't know how to do any of this stuff. I may just call the computer guy and have him do it all. Drag. Lucky I have this lame old desktop.

It happened while it was on. I left it on when I had a doctors appointment, and when I came back, it said that Windows couldn't load because a certain necessary file was corrupt. I talked to some guy at Dell with the thickest Middle Eastern accent I had ever heard and once I finally was able to understand him, it became obvious that my comp was phucked and I had to reinstall everything. Plans for work, my CAD software, photos, emails, EVERYTHING had to be erased. I did have a working CD drive, though, so you have my sympathies on that one, love.