Ok, Sunday I was updating my dad's 8 year old laptop computer because it's quite a dinosaur. I was installing the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update on his laptop. It didn't install, and it was uninstalling itself. My foot accidentally got caught to the power cord and the power cord came loose from the computer during the installation, so the computer went off because the computer must be plugged into the wall for it to work. When I tried starting it again, it would start like it was supposed to, but then I would get a blue screen with an error message, then the computer would restart itself. Contacted the security people yesterday and told us to look for the operating system disc that came with the computer. So we was expecting a call today to see if the computer can be saved because we did find the disc yesterday, but they never called back. Perhaps tomorrow we''ll give them a call. I highly doubt that the computer will be saved, and something tells me that no one will be able to use it anymore. So, I'm pretty much upset because of that accident happening because we'll be losing a computer.
**Update** The computer was able to be saved, without thanks of the security people. All of the programs that was on the laptop was erased, but I did my best to get back some of the most necessary things back on my dads laptop. All there is to do now is to install the security, and it's ready to roll. Hopefully it won't happen again. I thank you all for trying to help me.**
So, have you made a mistake that made you lose or damage something that cannot be fixed? Perhaps you made a bad mistake, but was lucky enough to solve it or get it fixed? Please share your opinions, comments, stories, or questions that you may have for anyone or me. See you all later, and until next time.
-Ty
A critical accident that happened by mistake. (update)
Ok, Sunday I was updating my dad's 8 year old laptop computer because it's quite a dinosaur. I was installing the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update on his laptop. It didn't install, and it was uninstalling itself. My foot accidentally got caught to the power cord and the power cord came loose from the computer during the installation, so the computer went off because the computer must be plugged into the wall for it to work. When I tried starting it again, it would start like it was supposed to, but then I would get a blue screen with an error message, then the computer would restart itself. Contacted the security people yesterday and told us to look for the operating system disc that came with the computer. So we was expecting a call today to see if the computer can be saved because we did find the disc yesterday, but they never called back. Perhaps tomorrow we''ll give them a call. I highly doubt that the computer will be saved, and something tells me that no one will be able to use it anymore. So, I'm pretty much upset because of that accident happening because we'll be losing a computer.
**Update** The computer was able to be saved, without thanks of the security people. All of the programs that was on the laptop was erased, but I did my best to get back some of the most necessary things back on my dads laptop. All there is to do now is to install the security, and it's ready to roll. Hopefully it won't happen again. I thank you all for trying to help me.**
So, have you made a mistake that made you lose or damage something that cannot be fixed? Perhaps you made a bad mistake, but was lucky enough to solve it or get it fixed? Please share your opinions, comments, stories, or questions that you may have for anyone or me. See you all later, and until next time.
-Ty
One night. Two girls. One condom.
I'll never look back.
...No you idiots i had to make a choice.... Geez.
No, no. You must go into the boot up programs. You have to delete everything off a partition and start from scratch. I can't remember everything I did. You'll have to educate yourself. Read the link below and good luck." @Claude: When I tried reinstalling it myself, it told me that it didn't have enough virtual memory to run the computer. "
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instxpclean1.htm
Well, my friend spilled tang on his laptop right in front of me while we were watching an episode of Burn Notice. Fried his motherboard.
i was working on photoshop for an assignment i had to make multiple things. i made one saved it then i deleted everything from the first thing made a new one saved that on the same document. i did it like 5 more times. when i was done closing photoshop a pop-up came up saying do i want to make the saves. i ended up having the first one being my second one. i was a little mad.
i had to make like 10 objects in photoshop. in document one i made a circle saved it as circle one, then i deleted the circle and made another circle and made it circle 2. i'm still working on circle 1 but i save it as circle 2. so when i closed it a pop up saying do u want to save changes came up. i clicked yes, so circle 1 had got saved as circle 10. i ended up having two circle 10s. it was something like that.
Mount the ISO of gparted on a CD ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php), run it just as the computer starts to boot, and delete the corrupt partition.
Then, either get the OS disc, or put on linux. Make an ubuntu live cd, pop it into your computer when it boots up so you can try out linux without screwing up your computer or installing anything, if you like it, there's a desktop icon to install it.
That's the techy way to do it, anyways.
"@crunchUK said:I accidentally got really pissed off at CoD World at War and accidentally rammed the right side of my 360 controller into the front screen of my cell phone. By accident.Oh and i accidentally threw my xbox360 controller against the wall and the thumbstick broke "Yeah, I did something like that once. I accidentally took a hammer and accidentally started smashing a music cd. "
" @crunchUK said:Really? I'm thinking of accidentally taking a hammer to a 52" HDTV that switches to the tv feed every god damn time the dvr kicks in, especially when i'm in a frantic game of Fat Princess.Oh and i accidentally threw my xbox360 controller against the wall and the thumbstick broke "Yeah, I did something like that once. I accidentally took a hammer and accidentally started smashing a music cd. "
I just lost my laptop by shutting it off probably at the wrong time; I couldnt see, because the screen was damaged, and as a result, it doesnt even boot up anymore.
I was at my dad's house over the holiday and was using a laptop. It's a dinosaur, so it was old with little virus protection. I believe I visited IGN, /Film or some tech site, but all of a sudden I started getting these pop-ups one after another nonstop. Like a level 10 virus or something like that. Next thing i know the computer is overrun with this thing and my dad has to explain to his boss why the manual he was writing for work is all of a sudden gone.
Very strange. And certainly not good.
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