we have an extra show to tape along with taping 5 extra segments that air in other newscasts
and then we do an extra half hour on the end of our regular noon news
all with this home and garden guy who pretty much answers the same 5 questions over and over and he always has these guests on that are all "gull darnd if it aint the neatest thang the be on the tee vee"
I need to reformat my entire computer, but I can't get into windows since it won't boot up and all I can access are my BIOS
Is there any way to manually retrieve my essential data from my C: drive and then wipe it clean and reinstall xp or am I buggered
(also how do I know if I'm using NTFS or FAT32 i can't figure out where it would say that in the bios)
You're using NTFS.
Also you just just boot from the disc to reinstall windows and delete your partitions and such, but if you can't log onto windows (have you tried booting into safe mode?) then I can't think of any way to retrieve any files.
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edited September 2008
Yep, I've tried every variation of safemode and even disabled the first thing my safemode loading was getting hungup on, to no avail.
That is a bummer! I guess I'll just have to delete my partitions and start anew after 5 years of accruing data on this baby
Would it be possible to manually pull my HD's out, plug 'em into something, and retrieve the data maybe?
Yep, I've tried every variation of safemode and even disabled the first thing my safemode loading was getting hungup on, to no avail.
That is a bummer! I guess I'll just have to delete my partitions and start anew after 5 years of accruing data on this baby
Would it be possible to manually pull my HD's out, plug 'em into something, and retrieve the data maybe?
Well if you have more than one HD, only the one that contains your operating system would be effected. You could just totally ignore the other one and all of your data would still be intact once you reinstall windows.
I need to reformat my entire computer, but I can't get into windows since it won't boot up and all I can access are my BIOS
Is there any way to manually retrieve my essential data from my C: drive and then wipe it clean and reinstall xp or am I buggered
(also how do I know if I'm using NTFS or FAT32 i can't figure out where it would say that in the bios)
Depends on what you mean by "retrieve"
If you have a second hard drive or a USB drive or something, my first thought would be to tell you to go to another computer and burn a live linux CD, like Ubuntu or something (yes it's linux I know, but you never have to touch a terminal for this) and boot from that
Then you can do whatever copying you need to do, then find your windows CD and boot from that and get to formattin and reinstallin
If you DON'T have a second hard drive or a USB drive or something... err, get one I guess? I can't think of a good solution without one now that you've lost access to Windows, frankly
Only very old installations will still be using FAT32 (unless you set it to do that yourself when you installed Windows, and if you did, you knew why); most likely you're on NTFS
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edited September 2008
Yeah, I have a C: Drive and an F: drive, the windows install is on C:
So all I have to do is delete the C: partition in the BIOS and reinstall from my XP reinstall disk? (thank you javen you are an H&A all by yourself)
Also if your system got flummoxed because of a virus/worm then you REALLLLLLY don't want to start spreading that data around, just wipe it out (nuke from orbit etc etc) and start anew
Yes losing all that (porn|music|etc) really sucks, but it's better than keeping a virus laying around
Yeah, I have a C: Drive and an F: drive, the windows install is on C:
So all I have to do is delete the C: partition in the BIOS and reinstall from my XP reinstall disk? (thank you javen you are an H&A all by yourself)
Just to be safe I'd actually physically remove your F Drive until you've reinstalled windows. The drive is already formatted to windows so it shouldn't have any problems reading it, but again, just to be safe.
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I need to reformat my entire computer, but I can't get into windows since it won't boot up and all I can access are my BIOS
Is there any way to manually retrieve my essential data from my C: drive and then wipe it clean and reinstall xp or am I buggered
(also how do I know if I'm using NTFS or FAT32 i can't figure out where it would say that in the bios)
Depends on what you mean by "retrieve"
If you have a second hard drive or a USB drive or something, my first thought would be to tell you to go to another computer and burn a live linux CD, like Ubuntu or something (yes it's linux I know, but you never have to touch a terminal for this) and boot from that
Then you can do whatever copying you need to do, then find your windows CD and boot from that and get to formattin and reinstallin
If you DON'T have a second hard drive or a USB drive or something... err, get one I guess? I can't think of a good solution without one now that you've lost access to Windows, frankly
Only very old installations will still be using FAT32 (unless you set it to do that yourself when you installed Windows, and if you did, you knew why); most likely you're on NTFS
Can you give me a quick rundown of how to do this with Ubuntu? I'm going to download and burn Ubuntu right now and see if there's any way I can use it to selectively preserve my data.
Can you give me a quick rundown of how to do this with Ubuntu? I'm going to download and burn Ubuntu right now and see if there's any way I can use it to selectively preserve my data.
If Ubuntu doesn't freak the fuck out at your hardware (it PROBABLY won't), then it'll come right up with a windows-like GUI and should identify all your drives for you, just start draggin and droppin
If Ubuntu DOES freak the fuck out, then yeah do what Air said, but I don't know if DOS can even read FAT32 let alone NTFS
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Can you give me a quick rundown of how to do this with Ubuntu? I'm going to download and burn Ubuntu right now and see if there's any way I can use it to selectively preserve my data.
If Ubuntu doesn't freak the fuck out at your hardware (it PROBABLY won't), then it'll come right up with a windows-like GUI and should identify all your drives for you, just start draggin and droppin
If Ubuntu DOES freak the fuck out, then yeah do what Air said, but I don't know if DOS can even read FAT32 let alone NTFS
Aweeeesoooooome
I thought linux was all cryptic codes and magic rituals, downloading ubuntu now
but if anyone else around here has extra insight please add it because I haven't played WAR in like 24 hours and i'm getting the fuckin' shakes
does ubuntu write to ntfs cos i think i may have had a problem with that that brief time i tried ubuntu
if that happens you gotta reformat somethin to fat32
but reading is okay and i might be confused about the whole thing
anyway if shit stays fucked just leave the ubuntu cd in the drive and enjoy your new operating system
does ubuntu write to ntfs cos i think i may have had a problem with that that brief time i tried ubuntu
if that happens you gotta reformat somethin to fat32
but reading is okay and i might be confused about the whole thing
anyway if shit stays fucked just leave the ubuntu cd in the drive and enjoy your new operating system
I think they figured out writing to NTFS like a year or so ago, yeah
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edited September 2008
So I downloaded the 694mb ubuntu file and burned it to a disk
When I try to boot to that burned disk it doesn't find it, what'd i do wrong
UMMMMMM YOUR BIOS IS PROBABLY BOOTING OUT OF ORDER
IN YOUR BIOS, LOOK FOR SOMETHING LIKE BOOT DEVICE ORDER OR BOOT DEVICE PRIORITY OR SOMESHIT AND MAKE SURE YOUR CDROM DRIVE IS HIGHER PRIORITY THAN YOUR HARD DRIVES
UH
KINDA HARD TO GIVE DIRECTIONS ON THIS WITHOUT SEEING YOUR BIOS SCREEN SINCE EVERY ONE IS INEVITABLY SORT OF DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE'S FOR SOME GODDAMN REASON
MAYBE YOU COULD TAKE A PICTURE OR SOMETHING
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UMMMMMM YOUR BIOS IS PROBABLY BOOTING OUT OF ORDER
IN YOUR BIOS, LOOK FOR SOMETHING LIKE BOOT DEVICE ORDER OR BOOT DEVICE PRIORITY OR SOMESHIT AND MAKE SURE YOUR CDROM DRIVE IS HIGHER PRIORITY THAN YOUR HARD DRIVES
UH
KINDA HARD TO GIVE DIRECTIONS ON THIS WITHOUT SEEING YOUR BIOS SCREEN SINCE EVERY ONE IS INEVITABLY SORT OF DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE'S FOR SOME GODDAMN REASON
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we have an extra show to tape along with taping 5 extra segments that air in other newscasts
and then we do an extra half hour on the end of our regular noon news
all with this home and garden guy who pretty much answers the same 5 questions over and over and he always has these guests on that are all "gull darnd if it aint the neatest thang the be on the tee vee"
I need to reformat my entire computer, but I can't get into windows since it won't boot up and all I can access are my BIOS
Is there any way to manually retrieve my essential data from my C: drive and then wipe it clean and reinstall xp or am I buggered
(also how do I know if I'm using NTFS or FAT32 i can't figure out where it would say that in the bios)
You're using NTFS.
Also you just just boot from the disc to reinstall windows and delete your partitions and such, but if you can't log onto windows (have you tried booting into safe mode?) then I can't think of any way to retrieve any files.
That is a bummer! I guess I'll just have to delete my partitions and start anew after 5 years of accruing data on this baby
Would it be possible to manually pull my HD's out, plug 'em into something, and retrieve the data maybe?
Well if you have more than one HD, only the one that contains your operating system would be effected. You could just totally ignore the other one and all of your data would still be intact once you reinstall windows.
Depends on what you mean by "retrieve"
If you have a second hard drive or a USB drive or something, my first thought would be to tell you to go to another computer and burn a live linux CD, like Ubuntu or something (yes it's linux I know, but you never have to touch a terminal for this) and boot from that
Then you can do whatever copying you need to do, then find your windows CD and boot from that and get to formattin and reinstallin
If you DON'T have a second hard drive or a USB drive or something... err, get one I guess? I can't think of a good solution without one now that you've lost access to Windows, frankly
Only very old installations will still be using FAT32 (unless you set it to do that yourself when you installed Windows, and if you did, you knew why); most likely you're on NTFS
So all I have to do is delete the C: partition in the BIOS and reinstall from my XP reinstall disk? (thank you javen you are an H&A all by yourself)
Yes losing all that (porn|music|etc) really sucks, but it's better than keeping a virus laying around
Just to be safe I'd actually physically remove your F Drive until you've reinstalled windows. The drive is already formatted to windows so it shouldn't have any problems reading it, but again, just to be safe.
Can you give me a quick rundown of how to do this with Ubuntu? I'm going to download and burn Ubuntu right now and see if there's any way I can use it to selectively preserve my data.
forget this ubuntu shit take it back to the old school doggy
Man I haven't even SEEN a floppy drive in years (no joke) :P
(unless you meant dos boot cd, then welp)
Which is weird
If Ubuntu doesn't freak the fuck out at your hardware (it PROBABLY won't), then it'll come right up with a windows-like GUI and should identify all your drives for you, just start draggin and droppin
If Ubuntu DOES freak the fuck out, then yeah do what Air said, but I don't know if DOS can even read FAT32 let alone NTFS
Aweeeesoooooome
I thought linux was all cryptic codes and magic rituals, downloading ubuntu now
but if anyone else around here has extra insight please add it because I haven't played WAR in like 24 hours and i'm getting the fuckin' shakes
if that happens you gotta reformat somethin to fat32
but reading is okay and i might be confused about the whole thing
anyway if shit stays fucked just leave the ubuntu cd in the drive and enjoy your new operating system
I think they figured out writing to NTFS like a year or so ago, yeah
When I try to boot to that burned disk it doesn't find it, what'd i do wrong
that seemed to easy anyway
did you burn the iso as a file to the disc or do a burn image with your burning software?
I'm on my mac right now, how can I burn it into an .iso or burn image?
here's how you do it apparently
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060619181010389
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OPEN THAT AND HIT COMMAND-B THEN CHOOSE THE ISO YOU DOWNLOADED AND IT SHOULD BURN TO A BLANK
THAT SHOULD WORK ON YOUR PC AND IF IT DOESN'T THEN welp
IN YOUR BIOS, LOOK FOR SOMETHING LIKE BOOT DEVICE ORDER OR BOOT DEVICE PRIORITY OR SOMESHIT AND MAKE SURE YOUR CDROM DRIVE IS HIGHER PRIORITY THAN YOUR HARD DRIVES
UH
KINDA HARD TO GIVE DIRECTIONS ON THIS WITHOUT SEEING YOUR BIOS SCREEN SINCE EVERY ONE IS INEVITABLY SORT OF DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE'S FOR SOME GODDAMN REASON
MAYBE YOU COULD TAKE A PICTURE OR SOMETHING
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