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been interesting day yesterday

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:59 pm
by DragonFury
Well it started off as trying to figure out why the in world I could not set up a simple homegroup on anyone of the computers, there are 4 total on this network, 1 is mine, 1 is roomies, 1 is HTPC, and 1 laptop. Everytime I try to set up homegroup on the three I own, lappy, main, and HTPC it would say that Dragon on Dragon-PC has the password, funny thing was I am Dragon while using Dragon-PC and it wouldn't give me squat. Long story short, I found out that it was my roomies computer that was confusing the hell out of the homegroup and his computer was "Portraying as Dragon on Dragon-PC", but during my trouble shooting episode I redid the OS on my Main computer to eliminate any possibilities, or problems on my end; I somehow managed to wipe out my entire backup drive I use for store all of my files that I do with my programs. Ie, I would use Microsoft Word and save that document on my back up drive. I lost all of my homework that I was working on, all of my images that relate to here, school, and various pictures I been taking over the years.

I tired a recovery program but the issue is that somehow I managed to wipe out the partition on the drive itself, the program my pops using could not pick up anything.

Re: been interesting day yesterday

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:13 pm
by WaKai
have you tried a partition recovery program? You didn't specify if it was partition program or not.
I tested this one by creating a partition on my external drive then deleting it, it found the partition and recovered it:
http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Data-Re ... ag=mncol;1

make sure you do custom install and untick everything so that you don't install that extra browser stuff you don't need.

:edit:
I've edited the link in your post. You had a link to download directly from dl.cnet
Please don't do this again.
Not saying it's spam, but pls give members the choice to decide to download it themselves.

: KenC51 (mod)

Re: been interesting day yesterday

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:21 pm
by kenc51
Dragon,

I hate those days. things never work out easy.

C'est la vie

or As Gaeilge (in Irish)
cac a tharlaĆ­onn

:drinkers:

Re: been interesting day yesterday

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:35 pm
by WaKai
WaKai wrote:
:edit:
I've edited the link in your post. You had a link to download directly from dl.cnet
Please don't do this again.
Not saying it's spam, but pls give members the choice to decide to download it themselves.

: KenC51 (mod)
Ok thanks for the edit!

Re: been interesting day yesterday

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:53 pm
by vbironchef
You must have been tired or frustrated to make that kind of boo boo. Sometimes its just better just to walk away then to do what you did. I hope everything works out for you. You should have just slept on it. Wake up in a refreshed mood than to do something harsh or worse, like loosing your data. Anyway, best of luck. Been there, done that. Just saying because you are not alone.

Re: been interesting day yesterday

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:51 am
by smack323
I did the same thing when reinstalling an OS o few years back.. I accidently installed on my storage drive.. I was able to recover about 90% of my files though. sorry to hear..