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| nigelwright7557:
--- Quote from: Berni on November 11, 2021, 12:52:22 pm ---I left some unsaved work open at the end of my shift, put my PC into sleep mode, came to work the next morning to find an empty desktop. I went to investigate trough the logs what happened in case it somehow had a bluescreen or something. Nothing to be found, but i did find that it installed updates on that day. --- End quote --- In 2006 I had to reinstall Windows. So put in Windows CD and let it do its stuff. As it was a clean install it formatted the hard drive which was fine as I had put my stuff on a backup hard drive too. I found out to my horror it had formatted the back up drive too. I managed to find some items on old DVD's I kept but still lost a lot of work. Since then I unplug the back up drive when installing Windows. |
| james_s:
There are un-format utilities that can often recover nearly everything assuming the drive has not been deliberately wiped. Most of the time when Windows formats a drive it just marks the space as available. |
| Berni:
--- Quote from: nigelwright7557 on November 15, 2021, 05:14:42 am ---In 2006 I had to reinstall Windows. So put in Windows CD and let it do its stuff. As it was a clean install it formatted the hard drive which was fine as I had put my stuff on a backup hard drive too. I found out to my horror it had formatted the back up drive too. I managed to find some items on old DVD's I kept but still lost a lot of work. Since then I unplug the back up drive when installing Windows. --- End quote --- I had that happen when doing an installation and at the spot where you choose the drive i assumed the first drive on the list of drives is the C drive. It had a similar size so it didn't tip me off at something being wrong, then once it completes i end up at a boot selection screen with two windows installs to chose from. At that moment i just paused a bit before my heart sank as i realized what i have just done. Admittedly this is my fault for not double checking i have the right drive, but for some reason every time i installed windows in the past the C drive was at the top so i just started assuming that is always the current system drive. I did try some utilities to try and get the data back but don't think i got anything useful. Problem likely being that the format wipes away most of the file tables (regular un-delete is easier because the file is simply marked as junk in the tables). Never heard of the windows installer messing with any other drives in the process. |
| james_s:
In reality he probably did exactly the same thing you did. Ran the installer, it detected an existing installation and defaulted to the backup drive. |
| Kleinstein:
--- Quote from: David Hess on November 15, 2021, 03:09:03 am --- --- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 13, 2021, 06:25:55 am ---One major flaw with Windows is there is nothing to tell you then the operating system has actually completed its boot-up. Linux has never had that problem. --- End quote --- Windows actually lies about it. Some modules are delayed until after the desktop is started to make it seem like the boot time is faster than it really is. Microsoft implemented this behavior to improve benchmarks. --- End quote --- It is not just on boot up. Also the busy mouse pointer comes up rarely, even if the system is busy and not reponsive. More like coming up only if there are more processes waiting. I think Win 8 nearly gave up on the busy signal - one sometimes can type half a sentence before the things come up on the screen. The download of an update in the background seems to slow down the system quite a bit - up to the point of making the computer hard to use for some tasks, like editing, where one needs the resonse. In these times I still want my Amiga 500 back - it was more responsive even with the OS from floppy disc. |
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