Draco1962 Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 My nVidia GeForce 8800GT is no more - it started pixelating the screen and locking up and, before I could enact a full HDD backup to the secondary drive lost full viusal access. Repaced the GPU with a GeForce GT 440 only to find out that my Win 7 install was fragged and got stuck in the wonderful Repair Windows loop. Bottom line - whatever happened with the GPU happened at the right place and time to frag my boot index.. so - REFORMAT AND REINSTALL!Fortunately, I was able to get to a command prompt and save most of my graphics and had already moved all ROMS, Assets, etc to a secondary drive so just need to reinstall my emus and GameEx, re-download my themes... yada-yada-fraking yada....Could be worse and has been so I am thankful for the lesser degree of worse than the major degree. Attendance will be spotty as I rebuild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehuonder Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Before you reformat, try installing your HDD in another machine as a secondary drive and see if you can get to the files... Maybe it's only Windows that's messed up, and not the HDD...Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Sorry to hear Draco,heres wishing your pc a fast recovery! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Ahh bummer man. I got some data recovery software that can pull files from a HDD even after a reformat or deleting or a MBR failure, maybe it can help you. PM me if you need it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted April 9, 2011 Author Share Posted April 9, 2011 Well, things had been a little wonky here and there with some programs and within the OS itself (not confirmed but I think it may have been the result of an install glitch that occured the first go-around). Nothing critical enough to make it unusable or unstable at the time, but when the GPU began to fail, the instability reared its head.So looking on the bright side, a fresh format and install was probably on the way eventually. My PC apparently wanted to advance the schedule and keep me out of the loop until the end! As for recovering anything, it will be mostly reinstallation as most of my data was stored on the secondary drive and/or the MS 2003 server.Thanks again for the help offers and I may just take you up on copies of the recovery software at some point as I have had need in the past and will likely at one time or another in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celly Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Ahh bummer man. I got some data recovery software that can pull files from a HDD even after a reformat or deleting or a MBR failure, maybe it can help you. PM me if you need it! As do I pal! Let me know also. Sorry about your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hope the recovery is coming along as fast as can be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 So far so good. Just looking a the loss as a needed intervention to rid me of my hoarding spoils. Sux that I have to reinstall my emus and redo my custom menus but was threatening change it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Like you're doing now, I actually used a rebuild as an excuse to do some tweaking. It's much more satisfying in the end, mi amigo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted April 12, 2011 Author Share Posted April 12, 2011 Except to the Miss-us (spelled correctly according to my wife). She keeps threatening to attach a keyboard to her body so I will play with her more than my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 You think that will work? Can she emulate a sex machine? Hahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kustom Kid Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Hardware/Software failures are always a good excuse to do some housekeeping on your files. I just upgraded my HTPC big time after some stability issues, and now I'm plugging away at cleaning up the pile of mess spread across a few hard drives after a few years of heavy use. It so hard to delete stuff when 3TB drives are floating around $125 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simbamame Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Except to the Miss-us (spelled correctly according to my wife). She keeps threatening to attach a keyboard to her body so I will play with her more than my PC.LOL, I like that . SM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Draco I trust happiness has returned to casa del draco? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 Things are getting better. I have delayed restoring my emus and for a bit while I am working on the next logo pack. Will probably begin work on one more theme after that (will probably be my last for a while) then will slowly begin rebuilding the emus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 It's not like you don't have access to the best support system on the interwebz! MaLa and Atomiswave can sux it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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