Furious

[valarltd]

So my computer died.

Our Circuit City card was current and we got a good deal on a floor model Acer.
Except, it has Vista.

Now when I knew the Dread machine was dying, I transfered material to an external hard drive. All my music. All my movies. About 2000 songs.

As of today, I have 606 files, 104 G about on the F drive. I deleted nothing.

Windows Media Player and Vista ATE MY MUSIC!
*headdesk*

All my Maid in the Myddle. All my Leslie Fish. All my Skinny White Chick. All gone.
Everything I ripped off albums I bought.

And to top it off, I can't run .avi movies.


Well fuck me sideways. Take warning, folks. Vista is Bill Gates's latest attempt to hold sole dominion over your computer.

Comments

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd known you were having comp problems. I'd have told you to load Linux Ubuntu on that sucker one time.

I can't believe it overwrote an external hd. That's more shitty than I'd previously given VISTA credit for.

Is your stuff really all lost? Did you completely transfer or just copy? Cause maybe someone can hook up your old hd and get your stuff back.

Also - does VISTA have a go back/return to status the way XP did. It's not the best device for keeping your comp free from trojans reappearing. But maybe it could restore things.

D'gamn man. I feel you. I sincerely feel you.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

No, it was a power source failure on the old one. Going Linux wouldn't have helped. Mudd tried. It didn't and just annoyed me.

And I completely transferred all my media stuff, because we thought I'd overloaded the poor old dear's hard-drive. I don't know about a go-back thingy. Mudd and I will check.

Thanks for the tip. We'll look tomorrow.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Also if you've local friends who're computer savy they might be able to hook your old hd up to a non VISTA system and run a data recovery program.

GETDATABACK is very good. I've a friend who just recently recovered 500G with it. If you haven't overwritten anything on the old HD, it may still all be there.

And is your old comp a laptop or a desktop? Because a power source failure sounds like the power supply unit fried. And if it did a new one wouldn't cost that much and you can try and save your data again, maybe.

I hope tomorrow offers more possible solutions and hopefulness.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Mudd's very computer savvy. he's like the MacGuyver of the Desktop. he's been building and working on computers since the TRS-8o, mark 1

We have 4 other computers--3 of which run linux-- that we can put the hard-drives into. The old one is a desk-top.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I say Yay!

I've only ever built one. So you're in good hands.

I had my own 'omg my music!' scare earlier this year. And then my old computer just decided to work again. And I frantically backed it all up.

One more Yay!