Windows 7 funnies ... LOL

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August 5th, 2009, 07:52 PM
Cider

Windows 7 funnies ... LOL

Hey guys,

Have to share this with you. My W7 finished downloading, tested it on a VM and good to go on my main system.

I boot from disk and custom install, everything goes great UNTIL I open My computer and only see 3/4 HDD.

My main HDD with all my data on is not there. OH MY WORD, such a kak feeling.

After some thought , lets check disk manager and low and behold it was there but no drive letter assigned. WHY must m$ do this too me.

Anyhow , got a password to add new users to my network, quite neat.

Thought id share that experience with you :)
August 5th, 2009, 09:21 PM
kvadrat

how is it connected SATA/IDE/USB/eSATA and is it connected direct to motherboard or to some card. is it RAID configurated?
what kind partition it is FAT16/32 or NTFS?
how big is that harddrive?
August 6th, 2009, 12:58 AM
t34b4g5

Don't you just hate those moments were your gut nots up, and you start thinking OOOOOO #$%K ..

thinking you have just lost all that data the the client told you not to loose..

only to realise after a few minutes of chain smoking hitting the bottle writing that suicide note, that hey the drive is there all i need to do is enable the sucker... :eek:
August 6th, 2009, 05:20 AM
JPnyc

that's why you always experiment on something other than your main box;)
August 6th, 2009, 06:49 AM
t34b4g5

Quote:

Originally Posted by JPnyc

that's why you always experiment on something other than your main box;)

I tried to experiment on another "box", but my GF got upset and left me..;)
August 6th, 2009, 08:27 AM
Cider

Quote:

I tried to experiment on another "box", but my GF got upset and left me..;)

ROFL ...
August 6th, 2009, 10:29 AM
gore

Quote:

Originally Posted by t34b4g5

I tried to experiment on another "box", but my GF got upset and left me..;)

Maybe you should try something better than a 3 and a half inch floppy?
August 6th, 2009, 10:17 PM
chaosclown

Ah man, I remember back when I didnt know much of anything about a computer, I used to think that those freakin floppies held alot. I would go to the local library and try to download games on it. Good times, good times.
August 6th, 2009, 11:24 PM
westin

Heh. I remember when floppies did hold a lot... Now we are setting up another 16TB SAN, thinking: "is this going to be enough?".

:)
August 7th, 2009, 01:55 AM
Cheap Scotch Ron

Quote:

"is this going to be enough?".

... Not likely.

Space... The final frontier.
August 7th, 2009, 02:02 AM
chaosclown

I bought a 500 gig external hdd, thinking I wouldnt run out of space anytime soon. HA
August 7th, 2009, 07:38 AM
Cider

Yeah Space is becoming mayhem in your personal capacity.

The gaming industry is taking the world by storm by filling up a 500 GiG HDD in a matter of hours :(

We should make this thread a sticky with all the stupid stuff people have done, will it make some people feel better? I think so!
August 7th, 2009, 07:58 AM
Cider

Why is my gif not working!!!!! Dammit!
August 7th, 2009, 01:09 PM
t34b4g5

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Originally Posted by Cider

We should make this thread a sticky with all the stupid stuff people have done, will it make some people feel better? I think so!

If enough members request for this to be made one, then i'm sure it could happen. :)

And yeah we all make silly mistakes everynow and again. But i see it as you gotta learn from those moments. But it's better when you get to witness other's make the goofy mistakes and then get to remind them about it every chance you get.. :p

Also amusing error message>
August 7th, 2009, 01:27 PM
Cider

WTF, tell me that is not real :P
August 7th, 2009, 01:52 PM
t34b4g5

Yeah it's real.

see and who says downloading and installing pirated software isn't fun...:lildevil:
August 7th, 2009, 02:30 PM
Cider

Thought it was a cracked copy, lol ...

Btw teabag, you a rugby fan, SA vs OZ this wknd :P
August 7th, 2009, 07:44 PM
chaosclown

Tis why I shall stick with the rc till it expires. By that time, hopefully I'd have that free upgrade.
August 15th, 2009, 12:28 PM
jockey0109

hey man you guys talking piracy open ? :) Like that :) Linux still rules :)
August 15th, 2009, 12:44 PM
t34b4g5

Quote:

Originally Posted by jockey0109

hey man you guys talking piracy open ? :) Like that :) Linux still rules :)

It's not piracy if M$ make the RC available to download, burn to disc and install.. :rolleyes:
August 15th, 2009, 12:59 PM
jockey0109

agree... but look at the post above mine :)
August 15th, 2009, 01:04 PM
t34b4g5

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Originally Posted by jockey0109

agree... but look at the post above mine :)

I looked and i didn't see anything wrong with chaosclown's post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaosclown

Tis why I shall stick with the rc till it expires. By that time, hopefully I'd have that free upgrade.

:confused:
August 15th, 2009, 01:07 PM
jockey0109

Agree. I think I took it the other way
August 15th, 2009, 01:13 PM
t34b4g5

I think MS are planning that if you buy XP or Vista you can upgrade to win7 for free... I cannot remember witch one it is, but i'm pretty sure i remember reading/hearing about it not that long back..?
August 15th, 2009, 02:58 PM
jockey0109

I never heard that. All that I knew is that people who bought the OEM version of the OS some time ago (probably an year), they will upgrade your OS to Win 7 for free :)
August 15th, 2009, 03:56 PM
PatrickDickey

Quote:

Originally Posted by gore

Maybe you should try something better than a 3 and a half inch floppy?

Unless it grows into an 8 inch hard drive.
August 15th, 2009, 03:59 PM
t34b4g5

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatrickDickey

Unless it grows into an 8 inch hard drive.

::hide-beh

& welcome to AntiOnline Patrick :)
August 15th, 2009, 04:00 PM
PatrickDickey

Quote:

Originally Posted by t34b4g5

I think MS are planning that if you buy XP or Vista you can upgrade to win7 for free... I cannot remember witch one it is, but i'm pretty sure i remember reading/hearing about it not that long back..?

It's not Microsoft that's doing this. It's the different companies who are selling Vista. Newegg for one. I'm not sure how much Microsoft is/isn't saying to them about it though.

Either way, Microsoft is getting the money, so I doubt they're complaining too much. Plus it helps the distributors get rid of their extra stock. But I'm not sure if it includes XP, since technically XP is at the end of life.

Have a great weekend:)
Patrick.
August 15th, 2009, 04:04 PM
t34b4g5

Aahhh thanks for confirming this Patrick. :thumbsup:

i wasn't completly sure about if XP was included in this or not.
August 15th, 2009, 04:05 PM
PatrickDickey

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Originally Posted by t34b4g5

::hide-beh

& welcome to AntiOnline Patrick :)

Thanks, and I'm glad to be here. I'll probably only post when something comes across my RSS that interests me though. Which may be a lot. :D

Have a great weekend :)
Patrick.
August 15th, 2009, 04:14 PM
t34b4g5

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatrickDickey

Thanks, and I'm glad to be here. I'll probably only post when something comes across my RSS that interests me though. Which may be a lot. :D

Have a great weekend :)
Patrick.

Greetz.

You should stop by the Roll Call area, start a thread and introduce yourself to us all. :)
August 17th, 2009, 06:56 PM
Cider

Im back,

Go to the doctor and get a "you've got the new flu" ... hope she was joking.

Anyway , anyone know the exact windows 7 RTM minimum specs. I somehow do not trust m$ referrence.
August 18th, 2009, 06:49 AM
nihil

Heh!

Quote:

Go to the doctor and get a "you've got the new flu" ... hope she was joking.

Naughty little boy.................just come clean and ask her for a date :D

What is her "bedside manner" like?............that's when you kick them out to make you a cup of tea ;)

In answer to your question...............

It will work on a 2GHz with 1Gb of PC 2700 and a 128Mb video card.

I have not tried it on lesser installations, but do watch the RAM....... A VM uses it in a different way from a single install ;)
August 19th, 2009, 01:27 PM
Zorolord

Vista should be thrown into room 101 for rest of time, and everyone who got sucker into using Vista should be given free Windows 7 and free therapy sessions too.
August 19th, 2009, 03:00 PM
Cider

Quote:

Originally Posted by nihil

Heh!

Naughty little boy.................just come clean and ask her for a date :D

What is her "bedside manner" like?............that's when you kick them out to make you a cup of tea ;)

In answer to your question...............

It will work on a 2GHz with 1Gb of PC 2700 and a 128Mb video card.

I have not tried it on lesser installations, but do watch the RAM....... A VM uses it in a different way from a single install ;)

How different are we talking?

It takes a chunk of the Ram on the Host PC and the VM takes it fully and then the VM OS uses as needed, what difference is there ...
August 20th, 2009, 05:16 AM
nihil

The basic difference is that VMs run concurrently whereas multiboot systems run consecutively. Each loaded VM takes resource, plus a certain amount of overhead.

If you want to use the XP Mode feature (which runs in a VM), Microsoft recommend that you have an additional 1Gb of RAM. That sounds about right to me, as XP SP3 seems quite happy with 1Gb.

I am talking pretty minimal 32bit systems here, such as you might expect to find in a SOHO environment (around here anyways). That would be word processing, accounts, spreadsheets, databases, e-mail, internet, and other business type software.

I think that you can trust Microsoft's requirements specifications if you bear in mind that they will be aimed at average domestic and office environments.

:)
August 20th, 2009, 05:28 AM
©opy®ight

//off topic. Nihili 15+k posts?

*jaw drops

hahah damn man you got Carpal Tunnel yet? :D
August 20th, 2009, 07:27 AM
Cider

Quote:

Originally Posted by ©opy®ight

//off topic. Nihili 15+k posts?

*jaw drops

hahah damn man you got Carpal Tunnel yet? :D

Errr, I had to google that.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/c...pal_tunnel.htm

My hand does "tingle" at times ...

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