-=PCTechTalk=- Re: explosive expletive behaviour
- From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:22:29 -0400
The extended pleasures I had in mind had nothing to with hard drives. :-))
What in the world would cause a hard drive to go bad like that? I could
understand a partition becoming corrupted but not all 4. Unless maybe the
boot manager was corrupted. But couldn't that be repaired without wiping
the entire drive?
Outlook Express records all it's email/news rules in the registry (I didn't
know that for sure until last night). I would have tried putting the drive
into a good machine (as a slave) and gone digging around trying to find all
those rules.
If a person uses a good quality back-up program such as Acronis True Image
and has it make incremental backups between full backups will the
incremental include any changes to the registry? If so that would save some
typing. I only have about 2 dozen rules but still hate recreating them
(which is why I went looking for them to begin with). If I export the rules
key and put it somewhere safe then I should be able to delete the key on a
clean install and import the saved key. Right?
A bouquet of roses and a bottle of wine (and a bottle of a "performance
enhancing drug") will fix the attitude problem with the "little lady". :-))
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:43 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: explosive expletive behaviour
> It's kinda funny that you should suggest something that relates to
> extended
> pleasures.
>
> Not long after sending that last post/reply, my system blew up. Well,
> actually, my main hard drive reported a really strange malfunction, so I
> ran
> a full bore CHKDSK on all 4 of that drive's partitions to see what was
> going
> on. It found a few minor things, but then refused to boot back in to my
> main OS which was running on the D drive. I rebuilt that OS from scratch,
> including all of my primary apps, and was just about finished setting up
> my
> email (with about 100 manually entered message rules) when it happened
> again. The only way to return the entire drive to normal turned out to be
> wiping ALL of the partitions on it (low level format) and rebuilding each
> of
> my OS's separately again.
>
> It took a lot longer than the promised 4 hours, but the little lady here
> wasn't feeling like smiling afterwards. In fact, at one point, she told
> me
> she was going to bed and that I should 'Have fun with that'. Oh, the
> humiliation. ;0{
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
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