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post all cock ups you have done with you computer
well here is mine true story

on one rainey day i was board and getting angry with my pc so i reformated it because i thoght it was fun, as i have two hardrives i reformat the wrong hardrive (begining of angry meter) so i have now reformated both drives not what i wanted,then my windows cd for some reson gives me a error about missing file i press ingnore, then when its done reinstalling windows i try to install service pack and while i was installing it i was just trying to set up my wifi again @ the same time (not clever) then it freezes and i forgot all about service pack 2 so i restarted my pc then yell "oh FUK!" then when i reboot it says something about haveing to rescan something then when i get back on windows half of the aplications are missing e.g paint (dear god not paint (best program ever)) and then i could find the handy cd with all the sound drivers not a good day so in the end i reformated again all from the start.!

so post all your pc cockups
captwill

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I am glad I did not use a PC when I was your age. They are a real pain when it comes to stuff like this.
Makes me appreciate that the slow loading times were worth the fact that every program would come with its own set of supporting low level code (i.e. would do its own input/output graphics, sound etc. & not rely on the OS).

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hm i am a bit of a nerd with pc's lol i am useing duel screens so i can have to aplications running with out forgeting about the other program

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oh now this is my kind of discussion :-P
lets see, i have 2 that pissed me off pretty good
the first one was when i was first experimenting in building computers, i put everything in a new case, and stupid me forgot to put the motherboard on the risers, and screwed it DIRECTLY to the metal frame.... yea that wasnt good :-P
the other one was more recent, i put my friends drive in as a slave to run a virus scan, left the jumper as master and screwed up my windows files, tried fixin the drive, did about 1000 different things, but in the end i ended up reformatting my drive, funny part is not a thing happened to my friends drive, i later ran the virus scan, found like 15 viruses and his computer now works perfectly

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I love when ppl say that they tried a large number of things ... come on in reality you did not try more than 20 or perhaps not even more than 10 things. Though this does not take away from the fact that these easily avoided situations are some of the most painful due to the large time-penalty that must be payed to return things to the way they were just half an hour ago. :uhm:

However something should have happened to your friends drive as windows will have loaded in the drivers for your system that it did not need when running his hardware.

Weird that your Win installation suffered... nothing should have happened to it unless you manually changed something on your own drive thinking it to be his?

Out of interest can you give further info on this ?

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Well, lets see...

One time I ran Norton Anti-Virus, and just kept clicking "yes", or "ok", instead of paying attention to what the messages were saying. I was sick, with a fever...

It then said I needed to reboot. After that ALL of my data was gone. I couldn't even read it from another computer, or a Linux CD. It just kept giving an "Invalid Partition" error, or a "disk read time out" error.

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i have another story i was downloading kobayshi maru of bridgecommander files and when it got to 81% i acedently kicked my wifi plug out then the download just cancles so the next thing i say is my trade mark "OH FUKBERRIES" (o for people who don't know kobayshimaru is about 500mg big so it takes a while to download

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I would have quite a few stories to tell if I hadn't thought of double checking first with one of my friends who knows a lot about computers. I can remember atleast a couple times that if I hadn't asked him if what I was going to do was okay or not, I probably would have screwed up my computer.