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Adam_S · 04-18-2005, 05:00 PM

don't feel too bad, it's just the cases, too bad you can't replace them with DVDcoverart anymore

Anyway I did much worse last week--wiping out my whole harddrive and years of data. I'd not been able to get DVD profiler to work for a couple months, anytime the new version installed it refused to boot up. So it was late, about 3AM and I decided just to clear the thing out and try it from scratch. So I uninstalled, then went into program files and erased all the DVD profiler stuff, including apparently some important DLL files (man I was an idiot, the first thing I learned about PCs years and years ago is to never delete files left around following an uninstall). I didn't just dump it in the recycle bin, nope I erased it, with an overwrite program, idiot that I am. Then DVD profiler installed and updated with no problems, I turned off my computer and went to bed.

Next morning it wouldn't turn on, wouldn't go any of the three safe modes, so you couldn't get to command prompt and last known good configuration wouldn't work. I cursed it and some time later recruited someone to help fix it last night. Well 3.5 hours later still hadn't managed to fix it, the best we were able to do was reinstall windows, unfortunately we failed to realize that all the stuff I wanted to save was in my documents which was somewhat overwritten. now I can get to the old my documents folder for whatever reason but it says it has zero bytes but access is forbidden to open it. It's also forbidden to get a dir on it from DOS and we couldn't seem to access it, so now I'm looking at pro data recovery places to get my info back since the amount of data on my harddrive is approx still the same so the info is still there.

Heh, my DVD collection ruined my computer.

04-18-2005, 05:00 PM	#7 of 76
Adam_S *Adam_S* Member Location: Marina del Rey, CA Join Date: Feb 2001 Local Time: 03:28 PM Local Date: 09-06-2008 Posts: 5,008	don't feel too bad, it's just the cases, too bad you can't replace them with DVDcoverart anymore Anyway I did much worse last week--wiping out my whole harddrive and years of data. I'd not been able to get DVD profiler to work for a couple months, anytime the new version installed it refused to boot up. So it was late, about 3AM and I decided just to clear the thing out and try it from scratch. So I uninstalled, then went into program files and erased all the DVD profiler stuff, including apparently some important DLL files (man I was an idiot, the first thing I learned about PCs years and years ago is to never delete files left around following an uninstall). I didn't just dump it in the recycle bin, nope I erased it, with an overwrite program, idiot that I am. Then DVD profiler installed and updated with no problems, I turned off my computer and went to bed. Next morning it wouldn't turn on, wouldn't go any of the three safe modes, so you couldn't get to command prompt and last known good configuration wouldn't work. I cursed it and some time later recruited someone to help fix it last night. Well 3.5 hours later still hadn't managed to fix it, the best we were able to do was reinstall windows, unfortunately we failed to realize that all the stuff I wanted to save was in my documents which was somewhat overwritten. now I can get to the old my documents folder for whatever reason but it says it has zero bytes but access is forbidden to open it. It's also forbidden to get a dir on it from DOS and we couldn't seem to access it, so now I'm looking at pro data recovery places to get my info back since the amount of data on my harddrive is approx still the same so the info is still there. Heh, my DVD collection ruined my computer. top 20 films 2008 film list My DVDs; S&S List 62...212 AFI lists: - DONE!