Mine's a PC, so I'm looking at getting a new 1 TB internal and saving up for an external. Time to start backing up.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:55 AM Subject: [Papermodels II 36855] Re: OT- Getting a goofy error message hey, fore warned is fore armed. Mine died quite literally in mid-edit as I was doing some video editing of some home movies. Middle of the edit, I blue screened, and the computer wouldn't reboot- some low level system file must of got corrupted. I had some 200 family photos, all my business accounting for 3 months, not backed up. I did get lucky though. A friend of mine set me up with a linux bootable usb thumb drive. the laptop would actually boot linux off of the usb drive, and I could mount the damaged drive and pull off my unbacked up files. He then restored the windows OS with an OEM burn, and it was as if their never was a problem; except the drive is completely untrustworthy. The laptop was that $300 acer blue BTW (great machine) and it worked great until the disk failure. So I bought a new 320GB hard drive, opened up the laptop and replaced the existing 160gb drive, and did a partition so the laptop can now dual boot, ubuntu linux or windows home. I really like the acer blue. I'm glad there was nothing wrong with it and it was just a disk failure. I understand they have a new one out for $380 now with an even better screen; the 1024x600 screen is my only issue with the laptop, its a bit small for web viewing. --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Paul McCool <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul McCool <[email protected]> Subject: [Papermodels II 36849] Re: OT- Getting a goofy error message To: [email protected] Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 1:40 PM Gee, Thanks for the good news, Jon. <VBG?> I guess I can back up all my stuff to my wife's computer until I can get a new hard drive... Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 5:17 AM Subject: [Papermodels II 36836] Re: OT- Getting a goofy error message That my friend is an early warning that your soon to lose your hard drive. Get everything backed up off of that drive. It may just be a bad spot on the disk and only the AR reader is effected (a re-install should fix) but its been my experience that once a drive starts experiencing failures like that its a cancer and the drive will die. --- On Thu, 5/28/09, Paul McCool <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul McCool <[email protected]> Subject: [Papermodels II 36825] OT- Getting a goofy error message To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 10:27 PM For the last couple of days, everytime I open a PDF file (Which is every ten minutes or so, for me) I get an error message popping up that says: AcroRd32.exe - Corrupt File The file or directory C:\$Mft is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility. What the heck is this? My Adobe Reader is working just fine. I took a screen capture of the pop-up, and attached it. Paul M. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
