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The Posetteforever diary - Computer Problems
Den Tracy [ Sunday, 04 January 2004, 03:16 AM ]
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For the last few days I have been experiencing PC problems, so I started backing up my stuff.
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Today my PC screwed up and now I am trying to recover what I can.
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My Poser4 is still there, but I don't know if everything is intact.
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I am currently trying to copy the folder over to a borrowed 80GB drive.
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The mainboard looks like it decided to do something when a write to C drive was in progress. I lost the System directory.
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A few days ago, I thought that it might be a virus. I could not run Poser to the render stage and it would hang up and reboot and all sorts of other
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starnge things.
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The only folder I care about is the Poser4 directory. All others are expendabe.
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I have all the props, models, and other things safely on CD.
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The strange thing is that the machine decided to do whatever it did when I was trying to backup my Poser4 folder.
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I am using a Pentium I 233MHz to access the net.
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Hopefully, I will be back soon. If all is lost, so am I...
Tormie [ Sunday, 04 January 2004, 09:08 AM ]
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<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/sad.gif" alt="" /> Good luck Den, what you wrote reminds me to make very soon a DVD copy of my works, I seroiusly can't live without Posy <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> ...
Den Tracy [ Sunday, 04 January 2004, 04:57 PM ]
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It isn't the mainboard after all.
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The hard drive developed bad sectors in the Windows System directory.
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After fdisk and a reformat, there are .94MB of bad sectors.
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This is now the second drive to have done the same thing.
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The first Fujitsu wiped out all sorts of things on Sept. 13, 2001.
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It was under warranty and I received a refurbished one.
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I have owned and swore by Fujitsu drives for many years.
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They were the best you could buy and were second to none.
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In all the years I was in business, I only had a few that ever failed
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either sold as upgrades or as part of a system.
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This makes two in a row and I now swear at these shitty Fujitsi drives.
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I was able to recover all my Poser Runtime and I was able to make a render
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off the 80GB after I told Poser where to look for the textures which were in different directories.
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I was lucky for the most part and only Windows seems to have suffered all
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the damage.
Landman [ Monday, 05 January 2004, 07:56 PM ]
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Maximum Overkill..... SCSI RAID Array....
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Never have to worry about a bad HDD tho.... <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_eh.gif" alt="" />
tda42 [ Friday, 09 January 2004, 05:42 AM ]
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Try to partition around the bad area of the drive Den. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_pray.gif" alt="" />