Desktops: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive?
- 8/21/09 11:04 AM
Re: Explorer crashing in a particular folder.
by royc - 11/12/09 8:48 PM In reply to: Your appcomp.txt File Crashing Explorer by BobkroegerYou may have an illegal file or folder name in that folder.
This can be caused by virus or spyware wanting to hide their dirty work.
Please see
my post in 'All who have or think they have a virus or spyware problem.'
in cnet 'Spyware, viruses, & security forum'.
If that does not work leave a message and I or another forum user will try to help you.
Deleted Folder And Replaced With New One
by Bobkroeger - 11/12/09 9:21 PM In reply to: Re: Explorer crashing in a particular folder. by roycI deleted the folder that crashes and copied one from another drive back to the same location. It still crashes. It would seem that if there was a file name problem it would crash where ever I put it.
Apologies if this is repeat information but I made two videos that show the problem happen. One is 4.5 minutes and the other a bit shorter starting with the crash:
4.5 minute example shows me opening folders/files uneventfully and then finally get to the crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZsXJWfMew
which shows me opening folders without issue for the first 2.5 minutes and then I get to the crash.
Shorter one starts with the crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbwUdYyTEY
Thanks for your willingness to help, Bob K.
Restoring XP
by Kurogin - 8/21/09 7:22 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In December 08, right after Christmas, I accidentally reformatted my drive because I wanted to fix my XP Partition on my quad-boot system (Vista, XP, Mandriva, Ubuntu) because it wasn't booting. So, using EasyBCD, I went in to try and figure out the problem, so I clicked on the option that said Uninstall the Vista Bootloader, tried restarting, then it couldn't find an Operating System. So I load in the XP CD, thinking I might be able to fix it by using the XP Restore tools, but the XP restore tools are lousy, so they didn't fix it and I still couldn't figure it out, and at this point I was panicking and incredibly confused (come to think about it, I should have just used the Vista Restore discs), which led me to try using the GPartEd live cd, which, once booted saw my entire Hard Drive of what should have been 5 partitions as one partition of messed up FAT32. And at this point, I remembered that I had backed up about 4 days prior, so I calmed down, used my Vista Restore discs to reinstall Vista, and then spent hours updating. I haven't bothered running XP since (I stick with Windows 7, Server 08 and Ubuntu).
Reformatting required due to MBOARDS dying
by genpres - 8/21/09 7:32 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have had M(Main/Mother)BOARDS die on me in the past. To get another board operating in conjuction with any system, it is necessary to reformat an old drive, and install a new, or even the same old, OS. Of course, when building a new computer, most new drives are "raw," and need to be formatted before it can have the proper OS installed.- genpres.
Had system problems I couldn't resolve
by CarefreeGG - 8/21/09 7:34 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't remember exactly why or how, but my registry become corrupted and my PC refused to boot. Without being able to boot the computer, I was not able to access the web to search for help. I bought an inexpensive 30GB hard drive and plugged it in in place of my original C:/D: disk and did a system restore from a restore CD to the new drive. Then I was able to access the internet and learn that I could reformat/restore the C: partition without losing anything on the D: partition of the drive.
Because the original C: partition was only 13.9GB, I had previusly installed most of my programs on the 75GB D: partition and all of my data files on a separate 133GB E: drive. I also had to find and install every service pack and update to every program I had installed on the original C: drive.
One thing I learned is that ALL program installations should provide an option to install on something other than the C: drive. Had that been the case, I would have been able to restore and update my boot drive with an absolute minimum of work. It would also have been ideal if it were possible to create a recovery CD to restore to the CURRENT version of the operating system, rather than the factory installed (obsolete) version of the OS.
Windows XP with SP3 on a Sony VAIO tower PC.
p.c. wont shut down or reboot and i had to unplug it.
by jinxel - 8/22/09 3:18 AM In reply to: Had system problems I couldn't resolve by CarefreeGGI have had same problems with my computer but i found that it started to slow more and more every day until it would not shut down and just froze and i had to unplug it and furthermore it wouldn't reboot either unless i booted it in safe mode. I had to do system recovery and i found it happened again soon within a month so i went through the same problem again and i found that having my updates turned on was doing it so i turned automatic updating off and i have not had a problem since. You work it out as i am baffled as to why this happens.Iam sure updates from microsoft is doing this to my p.c. I only choose updates i think i need and my computer has been running the same speed and reliably since i reformatted hard drive and system restored it as long as auto updating is off from microsoft i am sure it will stay that way. can someone tell me am i wrong or are others having same problem but think something else caused it.
why oh why
by LostValley - 8/21/09 8:12 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I attached a SCSI raid array intending to install Win98. I set bios to ignore IDE drives and let the install go. I had forgotten that my mobo HATES any OS prior to Win2K. Somehow the installation went through and wiped out my 3 IDE drives but only the first drive on array. This wiped out fifteen years off digital images, documents, records, etc... It really torqued me off. Thank God I had a full backup saved on another SCSI drive from 2007.
When I upgraded to XP SP3
by Zouch - 8/21/09 8:51 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Took the opportunity to clean up my system and do a new buildwith a slipstreamed XP SP3 CD.
Reformating Hard disk /Restoring the system.
by kbethiraj37 - 8/21/09 9:51 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
All of a sudden,I get the blue screen with so much of informations.As I have installed RESTORE IT,I restore the settings to a previous backup date and the system works well.But,on certain occations,I could not use the restoration and have to re instal windows xp.
When I get the blue screen,one of the reason given for such blue screen is that I have to upgrade the Bios version.Is it safe to do that.please advice.
Why did you last reformat your hard drive?
by Gigabyte_Jim - 8/21/09 10:04 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have never had to reformat any of my hard drives over the past 10 or 12 years and I'm on my fourth computer. Just got a new laptop (my first one). I use my computer for about six hours a day and I always use a top notch security program. I also do regular maintenance on my system. Hopefully this computer will treat me as well as my previous ones!
Why did I last reformat my hard drive
by publeo - 8/22/09 1:50 AM In reply to: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Gigabyte_JimToo much trial download of softwares and utilities to accomplish a certain task and a possible virus attack made my system work so slow that the normal restore was not able to remedy. It may have been caused by install/uninstall leaving an irreparable registry or a virus may have corrupted some of windows critical system files. In most cases I found it best by experience to restore the registry first, be it a restore provided by windows or an independent software restore function, however, there are cases when restore function will not suffice to restore system functionality. Re-istallation of window almost always accomplishes the job whenever the nature of defect is not hardware in nature.
New Hard Drive
by Tom_SF - 8/21/09 10:26 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Comparatively speaking, I don't have a lot of stuff on my computer and the biggest hard drive it will accept is a 160 gig. After having my computer for 5 years, a new HD was relatively cheap so I found a nice, quiet Seagate and installed that and formatted it with the CD's that came along with the computer. I back everything up so it wasn't too hard to re-format but it sure took time to update everything and re-install all the programs I had on it.
Now there are solid-state hard drives that last 100 years but I might wait until I get a new computer for that....
Reformat HDD
by michael_magrath11 - 8/22/09 1:44 AM In reply to: New Hard Drive by Tom_SFI usually re format my pc every 3 years because after 3 years my computer gets slow with all the excess programs I install. But sometimes I have to reformat because of stupid windows errors. Sometimes I wished i had a mac
upgrade
by korndog.korn - 8/21/09 10:56 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I last reformated to upgrade to windows 7 on my laptop but i havent formated my desktop harddrive in 5 years and ive had it in 3 different computers. I find that if your willing to spend some time cleaning things up theres no reason for a reformat. Unless of course the system has been compromised by viruses and spyware
If it ain't broke, I don't fix it!
by artzy - 8/21/09 11:34 PM In reply to: Poll: Why did you last reformat your hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I didn't grind the valves on my old Chevy, and I don't do root canal jobs on my teeth. There are are somethings best left to professionals. You may think you're computer savy because you talk the talk and walk the walk. If you can cluck like a chicken, does that mean you can lay an egg? You take your car to a mechanic don't you? Do the same for your computer.
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