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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:31:01 PM EDT
My harddrive went on my computer yesterday. And deleted everything including my thousands of pictures of outdoors/wildlife and of all the guns I owned over the years
Anyone recommend a cheap but good tower? I'm thinking of dell, as that's what I had and it lasted several years. I'm on a loaned laptop right know and hate typing on them!! |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:31:46 PM EDT
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Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg.
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:32:57 PM EDT
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mac mini!
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:33:38 PM EDT
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Barebones kit from Tiger Direct.
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:34:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg. Speaking of newegg, I was just looking at this. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103369 That's cheap enough and capable enough that I'd go that way unless you need something super specialized. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:37:16 PM EDT
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My harddrive went on my computer yesterday. And deleted everything including my thousands of pictures of outdoors/wildlife and of all the guns I owned over the years
Anyone recommend a cheap but good tower? I'm thinking of dell, as that's what I had and it lasted several years. I'm on a loaned laptop right know and hate typing on them!! Are you sure your hard drive crashed and it didn't get a virus??????? |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:42:21 PM EDT
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I don't really know how good they are,
but Wal-Mart has 2 models of E-Machines for $298 and $398 IIRC |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:43:48 PM EDT
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Quoted: I don't really know how good they are, but Wal-Mart has 2 models of E-Machines for $298 and $398 IIRC Every one I have ever seen has been bottom-of-the-barrel junk. but it's beena few years since I had anything to do with them. If they're still around, maybe they have improved a bit. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:43:50 PM EDT
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My harddrive went on my computer yesterday. And deleted everything including my thousands of pictures of outdoors/wildlife and of all the guns I owned over the years
Anyone recommend a cheap but good tower? I'm thinking of dell, as that's what I had and it lasted several years. I'm on a loaned laptop right know and hate typing on them!! Are you sure your hard drive crashed and it didn't get a virus??????? The only thing that's on my screen is the start button, and time. Everything else is deleted. Its coming up with a "Hardrive Error" Thing too. I'm not computer savy, and I asked my friend(Computer smart) he said it could be a virus but I wasn't under anything I should have got a virus from.(Ar15, and eBay at the time) |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:43:51 PM EDT
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I got this Emachine with 64 bit windows 7 on it 512meg video , 4 gigs of ddr2 ram , 320gig hard drive and dual core procesor from costco about a year ago. $425 with a 20in lcd monitor , keys and a mouse.
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:44:51 PM EDT
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I won't beat you up for not backing up your valuable pictures, but have you considered a data recovery service? They are very expensive but it might be worth it to get your pics back.
At the very least, try to run your old hard drive off your new PC (not as a boot drive!) to see what you can recover, if anything. Supposedly putting a hard drive in a freezer for a bit can sometimes get a dead drive to work again but I've not done it myself. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:45:48 PM EDT
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Pull the hard drive out and attach it as a secondary drive on a good PC. The data might be fine. It might just be the OS that's hosed. If it boots at all, then there is a very good chance that all or most of your data is recoverable.
And if you manage to recover it, make sure you start doing backups. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:48:28 PM EDT
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I don't know if this matters, but I can still access the internet on it via my MSN messenger(Still pops up by my time)? I'm confused by that?
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:48:48 PM EDT
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The only thing that's on my screen is the start button, and time. Everything else is deleted. Its coming up with a "Hardrive Error" Thing too. I'm not computer savy, and I asked my friend(Computer smart) he said it could be a virus but I wasn't under anything I should have got a virus from.(Ar15, and eBay at the time) Oh, you're in better shape than I thought. I was under the assumption that your hard drive was completely dead. At least you are booting into Windows with that drive. The good news is that the vast majority of your pics are probably still good, and on the drive. Despite your pics not coming up as files in Windows, the data is still there; when Windows "deletes" a file, it doesn't wipe all the info from the hard drive. So the information that constitutes your pictures are probably still resident on your hard drive's platters. Stop using the drive immediately. Power down your PC. Windows (and other processes) will continually read/write in normal operation and you don't want it to over-write any valuable pics that you can save. See, right now your PC thinks the hard drive space where your pics were formerly resident is now "blank" so it is available for the operating system to write over (e.g. for caching and the like). You want to stop this process immedately, because it is destroying your pictures. I'd say take your hard drive out and get to a data recovery expert. You may have to pay a pretty penny but I believe you will be able to get a good amount of stuff back. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:48:55 PM EDT
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Staples has been running deals on HP towers. Around 400 for a pretty decent one. Have your hard drive checked. Just because it wont boot your computer doesnt mean your photos are deleted.
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:50:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:56:17 PM EDT
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Thanks for the replies. The computer is shut down.
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Posted: 6/23/2011 12:59:49 PM EDT
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Your photos are NOT deleted, you've got a particularly nasty virus that fakes hard drive failure to try and scam you into buying phony anti-virus software.
It takes some work to uncover everything, but all your stuff should be there. Get on a different computer and download copies of MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, AVG Antivirus, and read up on how to boot to safe mode and run those. Also do some googling for "fake hard drive crash virus", that'll lead you to info on how to dig everything out. Also, stop browsing so much midget scat porn. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:03:14 PM EDT
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mac mini! win. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:04:43 PM EDT
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Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg. This man speaks the truth, get someone you know, that REALLY knows how to build computers and isin't full of hot air, and build one. Or do the research and build it yourself, it's like building an AR for the first time 
Sorry you lost your pictures and stuff, sucks big time. BACK YOUR STUFF UP ALL THE TIME |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:05:08 PM EDT
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Also, stop browsing so much midget scat porn. I wasnt, thats why I'm pissed it crashed! 
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:05:27 PM EDT
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What ever you end up buying do not forget to get a external hard drive for the only purpose of "backing yo shit up".
 Win7 has a built in backup utility but I find it's abilities somewhat limited so I've been using Acronis.P.S RAID is not a method of data backup. It a method of hardware redundancy to keep you running until you can replace the bad hard drive. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:06:36 PM EDT
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Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg. This man speaks the truth, get someone you know, that REALLY knows how to build computers and isin't full of hot air, and build one. Or do the research and build it yourself, it's like building an AR for the first time
Sorry you lost your pictures and stuff, sucks big time. BACK YOUR STUFF UP ALL THE TIME My friend builds all of his and he's got a lot of $$$$ in them. I don't use my computer for awesome stuff so it would be pointless to me. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:07:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg. This man speaks the truth, get someone you know, that REALLY knows how to build computers and isin't full of hot air, and build one. Or do the research and build it yourself, it's like building an AR for the first time Sorry you lost your pictures and stuff, sucks big time. BACK YOUR STUFF UP ALL THE TIME Yes. Take a few days and learn about it. Get thee to HardOCP, where the owner tests hard drive reliability with a .50BMG round...  http://hardforum.com/ I have been there sine 2002, great community, and always need more users and non-vaginal irritation types of geeks. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:08:30 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg. This man speaks the truth, get someone you know, that REALLY knows how to build computers and isin't full of hot air, and build one. Or do the research and build it yourself, it's like building an AR for the first time Sorry you lost your pictures and stuff, sucks big time. BACK YOUR STUFF UP ALL THE TIME My friend builds all of his and he's got a lot of $$$$ in them. I don't use my computer for awesome stuff so it would be pointless to me. Even a cheap home brew will be far better in the long run than a WalMart or Best Buy shitbox. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:11:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Roll your own homie. Get thee to Newegg. This man speaks the truth, get someone you know, that REALLY knows how to build computers and isin't full of hot air, and build one. Or do the research and build it yourself, it's like building an AR for the first time Sorry you lost your pictures and stuff, sucks big time. BACK YOUR STUFF UP ALL THE TIME My friend builds all of his and he's got a lot of $$$$ in them. I don't use my computer for awesome stuff so it would be pointless to me. Even a cheap home brew will be far better in the long run than a WalMart or Best Buy shitbox. Yeap! |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:20:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:26:23 PM EDT
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My harddrive went on my computer yesterday. And deleted everything including my thousands of pictures of outdoors/wildlife and of all the guns I owned over the years
Anyone recommend a cheap but good tower? I'm thinking of dell, as that's what I had and it lasted several years. I'm on a loaned laptop right know and hate typing on them!! Are you sure your hard drive crashed and it didn't get a virus??????? +1 I fix dozens of "Bad Hard Drives" a month only to find out the real problem on 90% of them is simply operator head space. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 1:26:24 PM EDT
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Roll your own.
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Posted: 6/23/2011 2:13:07 PM EDT
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When you get your new tower, pick up an external HDD also. I back up pictures and documents every other
months and keep in tin the bank safety deposit box. |
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Posted: 6/23/2011 5:21:23 PM EDT
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Your photos are NOT deleted, you've got a particularly nasty virus that fakes hard drive failure to try and scam you into buying phony anti-virus software. It takes some work to uncover everything, but all your stuff should be there. Get on a different computer and download copies of MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, AVG Antivirus, and read up on how to boot to safe mode and run those. Also do some googling for "fake hard drive crash virus", that'll lead you to info on how to dig everything out. Thanks.. I was able to fix everything, using my computer. I thought it was strange that I was still able to get onto the internet, and figured it was a virus. I'm just wondering where I got the virus from? |
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