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freethinker · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:17 am Post subject: ...just lost twenty years

...worth of my writing. Computer crashed from a virus, and the only place I've been on here is this forum, the Meadows website, and e-mails from my mom's computer at the sheriff's office in California....(Amazed I was able to get Mozilla Firefox running tonight, without my daughter's help..)

Just thought the info might be relevant to some of you...

(And don't bother yelling at me Cy, I know I shoulda backed that stuff up on slipped discs or something...)
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Brant · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:09 am Post subject:

I assume your mom is at the sheriff's office by choice. Wink

I'm not a good backer-upper either. Hope you can retrieve your files.
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busdriver · Journeyman Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 3497

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I'm assuming that's me.

Anyway, Free, don't toss that machine out yet. When you get a new one, you have a pretty good chance of getting most of your stuff off the old hard drive.
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freethinker · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:09 am Post subject:

Hell, Cy...I ain't worried about it...Not like it was the Library of Alexandria or anything...Easy come, easy go. And i can always write more..It's not my computer, anyway, so I never really owned the junk...Just thought if there was something going around, you all should be warned

And Bus, you have turned a midnight crash, into a morning laugh --Good Job.... It's probably Nature's way of reminding us that nothing lasts forever, and we too, are but dust in the sands of Time
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freethinker · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:17 am Post subject:

AND BRANT....DID YOU SAY SOMETHING about my mother..!!!???

( don't worry, I won't tell her)
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

How old was this computer? Viruses that crash your computer don't really exist anymore. Virus writers stopped making those long ago in favor of malware that runs in the background and steals your personal info. Crashing someone's computer was fun when you were in middle school, but it makes it hard for a virus to spread and doesn't really earn you any long term satisfaction. It makes much more sense to write a virus that is relatively hard to detect and doesn't crash your computer (meaning it stays awake and spreads it), and also earns you some $$$.

My guess is that your computer is old and succumbed to some form of hardware failure.
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freethinker · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:32 am Post subject:

Cy, it's my daughter's old computer, so you're probably correct...Bought it for her when she went to Bethany in '04...Paid for it with my VISA card numbered 5596 8521 8889 8796
Yes, I'm joking... The nice part about being poor...is you have nothing that can be stolen...

"Freedom's just another word, for nothin' left to lose..."

and vice versa The lost files were all written for her. She'll recapture them if she wants to....She's very intelligent
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Let me know if you need recommendations on methods. I've done some file recovery in my time.
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freethinker · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:54 am Post subject:

Thank you.
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:11 am Post subject:

Free--I thought that this thread was going to be about how your make-over makes you look 20yrs younger! My old computer crashed a few months ago. We lost all of our pictures! It sucks!

PS: I'm a GOOD backer-upper! Wink

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freethinker · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:44 pm Post subject:

Bus, I don't know what happened... I was working on my resume when the screen went black except for a flashing space-bar on the upper left... It said to restore windows something ( i think xp ) press f10...I followed the instructions on the screen, and when it came back on, nothing of mine was left...it was like a brand new computer...All my daughter's photographs, and poems I had written for them -- I can't find....I clicked on an internet explorer icon, then typed in Mozilla Firefox and followed the instructions to get back here....
Truth is, it was most likely my own stupidity that caused this, and not a "virus"
Don't worry...My little girl is smarter than me, and when she gets home in a week or two, she'll fix it
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busdriver · Journeyman Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 3497

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As far as I know, there is no single hotkey for windows restore. Even if he restored windows, his personal files should still be there. He would only have lost them if he did a full restore, which would have taken several hours.
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