The Dink Network

i want to die...

June 28th 2003, 05:57 PM
goblinm.gif
trav666
Peasant He/Him
 
more than a hundred hours of work put into my dmod... now its gone, probably deleted. my hard drive screwed up, i made backup copies before the hard drive was unaccesable, but the backup is gone, and i am having a hard time accessing the old hard drive, ill try to access the old drive tomorrow, unless that gets blown up

*edit*
i managed to get my dink folder onto my new hard drive, but for some reason it didnt copy any of the sub folders when i transferred it, anybody got any explanations for me?
June 28th 2003, 06:27 PM
goblinm.gif
trav666
Peasant He/Him
 
i just remember, i had scripts for a new skill to, theft, the scripts worked, but i wasn't going to implement it. i also had scripts for a clock, that would continuously run and record the amount of you had played, except it would give it in my own version of days. it took ME about 3 hours to get through, but i knew what to do... and the entire map was like 300 squares... about a third of what i was shootin for. if i cant recover all of my files, im gonna stand in the middle of busy traffic till they scrape me off the road
June 28th 2003, 06:35 PM
farmer.gif
hey man, don't be so hard on yourself...at least you learned something from your horrifying experience that will have tremendous benefits in the future (ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR FILES!!)
June 29th 2003, 01:00 AM
old.gif
Read better, he said "My backups are gone"

What do you mean with "Screwed up"

FAT / NTFS screwed up?
File recovery programms
doesnt work:

if you got winXP on it, then put the XP cd into the cd-rom, restart the pc, press DEL ( or something else ) to enter the bios, set boot order: Floppy, Cd, Hd, Network ( if you got those avaible )

Reboot, then press R when you are in the setup to access repair windows menu. You get a couple of questions and when you are in the *DoS* window copy all files ( if you can ) on a floppy ( cd's doesnt work, network maybe, but i DONT know how to copy them to another pc that way )

If the file is too large, then you are *peeped*

doesnt work:

HD died? ->
Try a file recovery programm ( www.google.com )

If the programm fails, then:
Send it to a HD recovery lab ( costs $$$$$ ) They scan the surface of the HD platters to read it ( ex: 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 )

then they will try to read the FAT / NTFS to find out which bits are 1 file.
June 29th 2003, 02:36 AM
farmer.gif
okay then...another important lesson...backup your backup files
June 29th 2003, 08:24 AM
goblinm.gif
trav666
Peasant He/Him
 
well if i backuped my bacups, then those backups of backups would be backups, so i would go into an infinite loop and have a lot of backups...
June 29th 2003, 10:47 AM
anon.gif
illusivefing
Ghost They/Them
 
ah...to heck and beyond with my important lessons!!

...