Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 1m 28d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 31/08/07 01:26 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 01:26 AM Since we all know the main use of the internet is for pr0n, imagine all the power you could save if you turned the computer off and bought your smut from an adult shop instead...You'll get banned if you keep that talk up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FatBAt Guests Posted 31/08/07 02:06 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 02:06 AM Been a while since I done this, but if you re-install Windows, do you lose everything else on your hard drive?If you have Win98 you can reinstall over the last install and it will fix any bugs (or corrupted files). If you have Win XP then no. It wants to at the very least low level format before it reinstalls itself.With XP there is a function that you can "repair" but it has never worked for me.Best tip I can give aniken is to split the hard drive with Partition Magic or the like. I have an 80gig drive which is partitioned with a 20 gig second drive calling it BACKUP. All my work files are saved into the second partition. If my computer has a melt down I just reinstall XP, Quickbooks and Office etc and everything is sweet.I learnt the hard way after a virus crippled my computer and destroyed all the exe files on the drive so I couldn't start the computer. At the time I had the lastest antivirus and firewall installed and it still got in. I think my daughter may have clicked "OK" instead of "BLOCK"....who knows.Maybe a little bit more info than you asked for but a second partition is the way to go.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nang3 12" member Donating Members 2,107 Member For: 19y 6m 18d Location: Perth WA Posted 31/08/07 03:47 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 03:47 AM mcfarken PC's are a PITA !!!!!!!!just building one for a mate, got 2 versions of XP Pro I been trying to load.. with 1 version, windows installs then just reboots continuously, no msgs no BSOD nothing..with the other newer version of XP, it installs, then reboots, shows the XP loading screen then a brief BSOD flashes then it reboots into the safe mode startup menu.. every option gives the same results of XP loading screen + BSOD then reboot...swapped vga cards, ram, cables, jumpers etc.. everything except mobo/cpu/HD, which are the only things I dont have a spare of here !! .. im thinkin it might be HD relatedok rant over hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubute Member 172 Member For: 19y 3m 13d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 31/08/07 04:14 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 04:14 AM You'll get banned if you keep that talk up!! Sorry mate, thought it might've been toeing the line... won't happen again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 20y 10m 28d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 31/08/07 04:26 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 04:26 AM mcfarken PC's are a PITA !!!!!!!!just building one for a mate, got 2 versions of XP Pro I been trying to load.. with 1 version, windows installs then just reboots continuously, no msgs no BSOD nothing..with the other newer version of XP, it installs, then reboots, shows the XP loading screen then a brief BSOD flashes then it reboots into the safe mode startup menu.. every option gives the same results of XP loading screen + BSOD then reboot...swapped vga cards, ram, cables, jumpers etc.. everything except mobo/cpu/HD, which are the only things I dont have a spare of here !! .. im thinkin it might be HD relatedok rant over hahahaYou might have SATA drives setup in RAID1 in the BIOS. This will mean you need to press F6 when doing the XP install to load specific HDD controller drivers.I would check the BIOS and make sure it is in normal IDA/SATA mode and not RAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nang3 12" member Donating Members 2,107 Member For: 19y 6m 18d Location: Perth WA Posted 31/08/07 06:57 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 06:57 AM You might have SATA drives setup in RAID1 in the BIOS. This will mean you need to press F6 when doing the XP install to load specific HDD controller drivers.I would check the BIOS and make sure it is in normal IDA/SATA mode and not RAID.hey bud nah ive fallen for that one before, its defo set to IDE/SATA..I found an older IDE drive and it works flawlessly so have just taken the SATA back and swapped.. Farken PC's, wish there was more consistency in their farkups haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aniken I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it Donating Members 4,316 Member For: 22y 22d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, south west Posted 31/08/07 07:10 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 07:10 AM (edited) If you have Win98 you can reinstall over the last install and it will fix any bugs (or corrupted files). If you have Win XP then no. It wants to at the very least low level format before it reinstalls itself.With XP there is a function that you can "repair" but it has never worked for me.Best tip I can give aniken is to split the hard drive with Partition Magic or the like. I have an 80gig drive which is partitioned with a 20 gig second drive calling it BACKUP. All my work files are saved into the second partition. If my computer has a melt down I just reinstall XP, Quickbooks and Office etc and everything is sweet.I learnt the hard way after a virus crippled my computer and destroyed all the exe files on the drive so I couldn't start the computer. At the time I had the lastest antivirus and firewall installed and it still got in. I think my daughter may have clicked "OK" instead of "BLOCK"....who knows.Maybe a little bit more info than you asked for but a second partition is the way to go.CheersI have XP SP2.I've got several partitions, so no documents or anything important (like pron) is located on the same drive as Windows. I learnt that lesson also, after a hard drive died and I had no backups or anything. Just wasn't sure if everything else 'goes' even if its on another partition. Edited 31/08/07 07:11 AM by aniken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 8m 16d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 31/08/07 10:50 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 10:50 AM It won't 'go' by reinstalling, but multiple partitions on one physical drive won't do fark all if it's dead hard drive time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FatBAt Guests Posted 31/08/07 11:27 AM Share Posted 31/08/07 11:27 AM I have XP SP2.I've got several partitions, so no documents or anything important (like pron) is located on the same drive as Windows. I learnt that lesson also, after a hard drive died and I had no backups or anything. Just wasn't sure if everything else 'goes' even if its on another partition.Everything on the other partition will be fine aniken. If you do get a "dead hard drive", you can set that drive as a 2nd (slave) drive and boot from another new drive and copy your data files 1 at a time to your new drive. Partiontioning is the the most convenient way to preserve files. Easier to tab to a partition than to be anal pedantic and hard copy data files.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 8m 16d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 01/09/07 04:52 AM Share Posted 01/09/07 04:52 AM (edited) What are you on about ?Are you trying to type with your screen turned off again? Edited 01/09/07 05:17 AM by Dagabond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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