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The Pub / Re: Why wedge?
« on June 13th, 2011, 11:48 PM »
We discussed it with them actually. Invited them and all. They're busy with other non smf ventures.
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Features: Theming / Re: New theme
« on June 13th, 2011, 05:23 PM »
Wedge does it already. As does SMF save for non php files.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 13th, 2011, 04:10 AM »
Okay, a quick summary of what I lost and what I recovered...
Basically, I lost two hard drives for a total of 620GB of data. Maybe about 20GB were backed up all in all. Out of the unbacked data I'd managed to recover, most of the files are gibberish. I've lost all of my settings, as expected, I reckon it'll take me over a week just to get *functional* again for Wedge, and overall my morale has taken a very strong hit.
See, it's 4am here and I haven't done a SINGLE thing on Wedge today... A big "uh".
Basically, I lost two hard drives for a total of 620GB of data. Maybe about 20GB were backed up all in all. Out of the unbacked data I'd managed to recover, most of the files are gibberish. I've lost all of my settings, as expected, I reckon it'll take me over a week just to get *functional* again for Wedge, and overall my morale has taken a very strong hit.
See, it's 4am here and I haven't done a SINGLE thing on Wedge today... A big "uh".
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Other software / Re: 2.0 in download area
« on June 12th, 2011, 01:57 AM »
Would be nice, yes ;)
Off to bed myself.
Off to bed myself.
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Other software / Re: 2.0 in download area
« on June 12th, 2011, 01:53 AM »
And I can't even browse that... :(
(I lost my repositoryhosting password in the crash.)
(I lost my repositoryhosting password in the crash.)
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 12th, 2011, 01:42 AM »
All right, I'll try tomorrow...
Uh, I just found a copy of Deideo.txt. A backup. YAY. Then I looked at the date... December 2009. Right. You gotta be kidding me. Most of my work on this file was done precisely in early 2010... >_<
:edit: Ah, phew... Found a copy from last February. Good! (See below.)
@Aaron> Nope, it's just screwed up. Here's the (un)funny thing. I salvaged my C: root earlier today, and put it into its own folder. Then I salvaged the entire C: this evening, and checked the salvaged Deideo, and it was corrupted. Now I just checked the copy I'd salvaged this afternoon, and it's in a correct state. Meaning that either xcopy doesn't do things the same way as Windows 7's explorer-based file copy function (and it doesn't do them very well!), or, more likely (because the original file is corrupted to me), the hard drive got in a worse state in the meantime...
Uh, I just found a copy of Deideo.txt. A backup. YAY. Then I looked at the date... December 2009. Right. You gotta be kidding me. Most of my work on this file was done precisely in early 2010... >_<
:edit: Ah, phew... Found a copy from last February. Good! (See below.)
@Aaron> Nope, it's just screwed up. Here's the (un)funny thing. I salvaged my C: root earlier today, and put it into its own folder. Then I salvaged the entire C: this evening, and checked the salvaged Deideo, and it was corrupted. Now I just checked the copy I'd salvaged this afternoon, and it's in a correct state. Meaning that either xcopy doesn't do things the same way as Windows 7's explorer-based file copy function (and it doesn't do them very well!), or, more likely (because the original file is corrupted to me), the hard drive got in a worse state in the meantime...
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 12th, 2011, 01:26 AM »
Lost my fuckin' Deideo.txt file... >_< (Again, the gibberish binary problem.)
I'd been working on that file for TWO YEARS. Was to be the basis of a complex website with a database of 'stolen' music in movies (i.e. uncredited inspiration from other movies.)
Oh, my girlfriend is going to be so happy about that... She said I shouldn't build that site, that someone would sue me for that. I still wanted to do it. I'm screwed, but not the way she thought... :(
@Aaron> I think the gibberish just means "the MFT was corrupted, and from what we managed to gather, your data was in that cluster, and if it's not, bad luck."
So I don't really see how Linux is going to magically find the correct cluster...!
No, no encryption on my hard drives. I can confirm.
Yes, the USB stick is bootable -- I used it to boot my EeePC after I lost its partition.
Backups: most of my backups are on a hard drive I have yet to test (I'll do it tomorrow). If that particular drive is safe, then I should be able to get back my SMF folder. But I don't think I saved a lot of data otherwise... I know that Deideo.txt was probably not part of it. Because it was in the root folder of C:\, and not in a folder called C:\Root\ where I kept my important text files to save. I'll see... Grmpf.
The other problem is that last Wednesday, I bought myself a new 500GB external drive precisely to store my files and make room for backups... But I was too busy on the Wine redesign and didn't take the time to build these backups. Instead I deleted a lot of the backup files so I could rebuild them from scratch (incremental backups take less space when rebuilt from scratch from time to time.)
It was REALLY a fucking stroke of bad luck for me this week.
I'd been working on that file for TWO YEARS. Was to be the basis of a complex website with a database of 'stolen' music in movies (i.e. uncredited inspiration from other movies.)
Oh, my girlfriend is going to be so happy about that... She said I shouldn't build that site, that someone would sue me for that. I still wanted to do it. I'm screwed, but not the way she thought... :(
@Aaron> I think the gibberish just means "the MFT was corrupted, and from what we managed to gather, your data was in that cluster, and if it's not, bad luck."
So I don't really see how Linux is going to magically find the correct cluster...!
No, no encryption on my hard drives. I can confirm.
Yes, the USB stick is bootable -- I used it to boot my EeePC after I lost its partition.
Backups: most of my backups are on a hard drive I have yet to test (I'll do it tomorrow). If that particular drive is safe, then I should be able to get back my SMF folder. But I don't think I saved a lot of data otherwise... I know that Deideo.txt was probably not part of it. Because it was in the root folder of C:\, and not in a folder called C:\Root\ where I kept my important text files to save. I'll see... Grmpf.
The other problem is that last Wednesday, I bought myself a new 500GB external drive precisely to store my files and make room for backups... But I was too busy on the Wine redesign and didn't take the time to build these backups. Instead I deleted a lot of the backup files so I could rebuild them from scratch (incremental backups take less space when rebuilt from scratch from time to time.)
It was REALLY a fucking stroke of bad luck for me this week.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 12th, 2011, 01:15 AM »
Fuck!!! The file that mattered the most -- my list of passwords, uh -- got corrupted... It was copied fine, but it's all a bunch of binary gibberish... :snif:
Linux -> Okay but I don't know a thing about Linux so I don't know which to use, how to install (I've got a self-booting copy of Mint on a USB key but my PC simply doesn't boot it...), and what to expect of it.
Linux -> Okay but I don't know a thing about Linux so I don't know which to use, how to install (I've got a self-booting copy of Mint on a USB key but my PC simply doesn't boot it...), and what to expect of it.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 12th, 2011, 01:09 AM »
Unfortunately, after a careful evaluation (i.e. using xcopy to mirror the partition to a folder on my safe drive), C: wasn't safe in the end... :(
Although it was 'readable', I only recovered 30gb worth of data, instead of 187gb. Meaning I lost 157gb here... :(
Among other things, I lost my entire SMF folder -- i.e. all of the mods and work I did... Including all file data for all of my SMF websites, and files for Wedge. I guess the files ARE still there, just the MFT or something is corrupted, because yesterday I was able to access the Wedge folder and retrieve all of its data...
I don't really what software to use to attempt to fix the non-trivial data.
For instance, "chkdsk f: /f" simply tells me (in French) "File system type is NTFS. Unable to determine volume's version and state (status?). Cancelling CHKDSK".
So, chkdsk is out of the picture... Anyone got any got experience? Or should I really use Linux...? (I don't want to burn a DVD for nothing really. Plus, my major drive crash happened yesterday while downloading it.... :whistle:)
Going to bed... This wasn't a funny day for me. (Except the moment when I launched my new PC for the first time.)
Although it was 'readable', I only recovered 30gb worth of data, instead of 187gb. Meaning I lost 157gb here... :(
Among other things, I lost my entire SMF folder -- i.e. all of the mods and work I did... Including all file data for all of my SMF websites, and files for Wedge. I guess the files ARE still there, just the MFT or something is corrupted, because yesterday I was able to access the Wedge folder and retrieve all of its data...
I don't really what software to use to attempt to fix the non-trivial data.
For instance, "chkdsk f: /f" simply tells me (in French) "File system type is NTFS. Unable to determine volume's version and state (status?). Cancelling CHKDSK".
So, chkdsk is out of the picture... Anyone got any got experience? Or should I really use Linux...? (I don't want to burn a DVD for nothing really. Plus, my major drive crash happened yesterday while downloading it.... :whistle:)
Going to bed... This wasn't a funny day for me. (Except the moment when I launched my new PC for the first time.)
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Other software / Re: 2.0 in download area
« on June 11th, 2011, 11:42 PM »
I guess Wedge is no longer 'illegal', then?
Well, they have no reason to prevent us from adding a link in our signatures any longer... :whistle:
Well, they have no reason to prevent us from adding a link in our signatures any longer... :whistle:
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 10:49 PM »
No, it just can't be explained in simple words... Yes, the cable is too short but I guess I could 'fix' it by moving the farthest drive to the center of the rack.
It won't fix my lack of slots though... :P Nor will it fix my lack of cables. (I don't think I've got any remaining power cables... Hmm.)
Oh, forgot to mention -- managed to retrieve C:, actually! The partition that was dead was another one (which didn't have a LOT of interesting data in it anyway), while C: itself was further down my partition list, so I didn't see it immediately.
It won't fix my lack of slots though... :P Nor will it fix my lack of cables. (I don't think I've got any remaining power cables... Hmm.)
Posted: June 11th, 2011, 10:48 PM
Oh, forgot to mention -- managed to retrieve C:, actually! The partition that was dead was another one (which didn't have a LOT of interesting data in it anyway), while C: itself was further down my partition list, so I didn't see it immediately.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 10:34 PM »That gives you 3 sata ports(Presuming your DVD drive is SATA), which should be enough quite a while.
Oh my... That's horrible. In addition to all of my XP settings, I lost so many things. My entire fucking to-do list for Wedge!! It was stored in C:\, at the root... Grrr!! My Locate32 database... Where I could have at least retrieved the list of my C:\ files, enabling me to redownload the stuff I'd lost....
My entire photo database... 5 years worth of pictures... >_<
"Thankfully", my CD collection wasn't on that hard drive. 500gb of data... I'd have hated to lose that in addition to my C: drive...
Go into any PC hardware store and ask for a 4pin molex connector to sata power connector, just make sure you got enough molex connectors in there(Here's how they look)
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 09:54 PM »
I think I only got 1 eSata port... :(
Sata power converter?
Oh, and the follow-up to my old PC's story... I just plugged in my system drive. It's dead. It's offering to format it... Boooo hoooo hooooo.
Sata power converter?
Oh, and the follow-up to my old PC's story... I just plugged in my system drive. It's dead. It's offering to format it... Boooo hoooo hooooo.
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Off-topic / Re: PC hotline
« on June 11th, 2011, 09:32 PM »
What a stupid idea...
I simply wanted to insert my hard drives into the PC, since, well, at some point I was gonna add new hard drives wasn't I...???
Well, turns out the setup inside the box is quite complicated. The GFX card is so huge, it simply shuts me down from one of the Sata slots. i.e. I can only have 5 disks, not 6. Yay. Then it's the cables... The power unit's cables are shown in a way that I just can't use them. Only one cable is available, which used to power the 1TB drive they gave me... And the other entry (plug?) in that cable is extremely hard to handle. As a result, the power cable is stretched to the maximum and I'm scared at the idea of destroying my hard drive by breaking the power slot over time.
What do you think..? (Yeah, I know, without seeing the picture it's hard to get an idea...)
Oh, that's why I didn't want to build my own rig again. I had this kind of shit happen to me back in 2005.
At least my original Antec case had some pretty cool slots for hard drives. I just had to put them into rails and insert them on the side. They were easy to access and everything... Not so with the new machine -- even though it's still based on another popular Antec case. The entire set of drives is enclosed in a case, and it's that case which is on rails, not the drives themselves... And the drives are positioned in a way I can't access them directly. I have to remove the case. And in order to do that, I have to unplug all of the cables from the drives...
Needless to say, I don't see myself doing that too often...
I fear I'm going to have to go without my extra drive. I'll just plug it into my eSata port and that's all... Uh. And I'll compensate with USB3 drives. (I don't remember... Are USB3 drives supposed to be usable as destinations for programs, or are they only suited for storing movies and such?)
PS: sorry, but it makes me feel better to talk about this crap even though I know nobody will answer... :P
I simply wanted to insert my hard drives into the PC, since, well, at some point I was gonna add new hard drives wasn't I...???
Well, turns out the setup inside the box is quite complicated. The GFX card is so huge, it simply shuts me down from one of the Sata slots. i.e. I can only have 5 disks, not 6. Yay. Then it's the cables... The power unit's cables are shown in a way that I just can't use them. Only one cable is available, which used to power the 1TB drive they gave me... And the other entry (plug?) in that cable is extremely hard to handle. As a result, the power cable is stretched to the maximum and I'm scared at the idea of destroying my hard drive by breaking the power slot over time.
What do you think..? (Yeah, I know, without seeing the picture it's hard to get an idea...)
Oh, that's why I didn't want to build my own rig again. I had this kind of shit happen to me back in 2005.
At least my original Antec case had some pretty cool slots for hard drives. I just had to put them into rails and insert them on the side. They were easy to access and everything... Not so with the new machine -- even though it's still based on another popular Antec case. The entire set of drives is enclosed in a case, and it's that case which is on rails, not the drives themselves... And the drives are positioned in a way I can't access them directly. I have to remove the case. And in order to do that, I have to unplug all of the cables from the drives...
Needless to say, I don't see myself doing that too often...
I fear I'm going to have to go without my extra drive. I'll just plug it into my eSata port and that's all... Uh. And I'll compensate with USB3 drives. (I don't remember... Are USB3 drives supposed to be usable as destinations for programs, or are they only suited for storing movies and such?)
PS: sorry, but it makes me feel better to talk about this crap even though I know nobody will answer... :P