Black Raven Dragoons

[Snobal]

OK, so... today we had some 3 hour tests and they were both very hard.
I'm coming home already aggravated. I turn on my PC, everything is fine, I log on just for it to freeze.
*sigh* I do the thing every average person does in the situation and reboot.
kk, so it's loading... common you can do it... and BAM "dadadada your SYSTEM file is missing or corrupt dadadadad"
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So turns out I have to get my XP disc or Dell OS Recov disc and repair
I would just like to take this moment to thank Microsoft for inventing their truly wonderful operating system.
GG MS GG


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[Aigle]

Down with Microsoft!!

I feel your pain, Sno.

I was about to get back up in the game with you guys..Until some sort of system error occured during my update process...I've got an inquirey out to the blizzard team for assistance...Maybe next week

Now I remember why I hated Tuesday's so much......

[Zancarius]

That's really weird. Although, one of the problems with Windows is that it's not completely uncommon for important system files (that were in use during some critical phase) to suddenly corrupt. Honestly, I'm not sure how it's possible. Modern file systems shouldn't lend themselves to that sort of problem. I can see that sort of corruption happening during a write, but I don't see it writing to a system file during normal operations. Of course, it's also possible that your hard disk may be on its way out. Random, inexplicable destruction or loss of data is usually due to some sort of surface problems with the disk.

I recall one problem on my FreeBSD install where part of the disk surface had failed. I had several partitions, /usr, /www, /db, and whatnot. /usr was completely trashed (including all of the backup superblocks) but /www and /db escaped unscathed. I might recommend using some utility like chkdsk on that drive if you're able to get it back up and running. If the disk isn't able to read/write to a cluster, that should be able to detect it if you scan the drive thoroughly for data errors.

Failing the latter, I have no idea what might have caused that problem aside from some freak Windows-related accident.

[Grimblast]

Bohica?

[Zancarius]

Bohica?

/agree