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Offline Shuffler

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Re: Starting over
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2011, 09:10:55 AM »
Too bad you did not alert us on here. You should have installed a new drive then restored the system or removed the damaged drive and and slaved it in another machine to get your files.

It could have been as easy as restoring the boot sector on the drive. In any case the files probably could have been saved.
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Re: Starting over
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2011, 09:21:31 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on May 26, 2011, 09:10:55 AM
Too bad you did not alert us on here. You should have installed a new drive then restored the system or removed the damaged drive and and slaved it in another machine to get your files.

It could have been as easy as restoring the boot sector on the drive. In any case the files probably could have been saved.

I tried this when mine crashed.  upon reboot it wiped the fresh install on the new drive. I saw my files for a second and blue screen. 
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Re: Starting over
« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2011, 10:06:15 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on May 26, 2011, 09:10:55 AM
Too bad you did not alert us on here. You should have installed a new drive then restored the system or removed the damaged drive and and slaved it in another machine to get your files.

It could have been as easy as restoring the boot sector on the drive. In any case the files probably could have been saved.

There was a big thread in the Hardware/Software forum on this.  Bad news is I think it's Ranger's only PC, and he couldn't even fire it up to log in and post a help question.  The only way he knew to get it to boot was to use the recovery partition/cd to factory-new his system.  By that time it was pretty much too late.
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Re: Starting over
« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2011, 01:18:58 PM »
Quote from: ToeTag on May 26, 2011, 09:21:31 AM
I tried this when mine crashed.  upon reboot it wiped the fresh install on the new drive. I saw my files for a second and blue screen. 

That will not happen automatically. I have used these methods for years repairing systems and culling files from damaged drives.

Only drive I ever had to send out was one that the plates froze.
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Re: Starting over
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2011, 01:55:09 PM »
sux Ranger.....bad.
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Re: Starting over
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2011, 10:15:13 PM »
Thanks all for the kind words.  I'll get started rebuilding this weekend.  Gonna feel strange downloading my own stuff lol.

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Re: Starting over
« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2011, 09:28:52 AM »
Quote from: USRanger on May 26, 2011, 10:15:13 PM
Thanks all for the kind words.  I'll get started rebuilding this weekend.  Gonna feel strange downloading my own stuff lol.

 :salute

True that lol
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