that reminds me, i once had to recover over 15gigs of music.

Welcome to EH-net.

All the same, let this be a lesson to you- always back up your data, especially your critical data.(i'm not saying this to shame you, i once did the same thing with my flash drive, but i had a backup.)

iSmith out.

oh yeah- i'm not making any backups. Know how many dvd's that'll take?

yeah, i'm a real download freak, never mind i haven't cleaned up my stuff for a year.

Not a backup. we have about 48gb of data on that hard drive.lucky nothing got destroyed.

I tried to setup a dual-boot system on our home pc. unfortunately, the cd was corrupted and the installation failed. i then rebooted the system to make sure it was ok. It wasn't. "PBR error" or something like that. so i natually assumed the bootloader was corrupted so i used a windows installer disk to try and fix it. however it asked me for the admin password (which is blank). i entered the correct (blank) password and it said the password was  INVALID?!?! anyway , i went with a =reparatory install. i tried the ubuntu installer again and discovered that the window's partition's bootable flag was off. i fixed that and rebooted. But windows STILL wanted to go through with the install. there was no choice and i had to do it. in the end, no data was lost.

feel free to laugh at me if you like.

why don't they use bittorrent to boost skype's speed? i think this is a really good idea.

You don't need windows to run windows apps. Wine, a windows compatibilty layer  for linux, is a handy alternative. Some distros can run more programs under wine than others.Anyway, download it at http://www.winehq.org.
 

I have now officially abandoned this project due to hardware difficulties.

iSmith out.

see how great it is?

firefox 3.0 beta is out already. they say it has 900 improvements. me, i'll take it when they have a stable release.

If you had to have your ultimate software utility, what would it be? ( you may just get your wish! )

just keeping this thread alive

wicked man !! i wonder how many people have gotten the nasty end of this 'stick'.

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