<RANT> I was about to try the new free VMware software in Windows. Then I realised that I had a redundant partition on my HD which had Linux on it. But because of my wireless card problems I couldn't get internet access on it so it was a no go. So I thought instead of using it on my Windows drive, I'll just delete and reformat the Linux on and use that as a dedicated VM drive. I thought I installed Paragon Partitioner on the laptop, but I couldn't find it. So I thought i'd use Windows Disk management to just delete the logical partition. Went into Disk management, right cliekd the 500mb swap space, delete logical drive. It gave me a warning about data loss, I assumed it was for data on the partition. As soon as I clicked yes the screen went blue with a big nasty paragraph from Windows telling me how its fucked up. PIECE OF COW SHIT. After 3 seconds, it was replaced by a blank screen. That was it. It completely destroyed my partition table. Linux couldn't mount the partitions, although Ubuntu Live CD saw the drives, but couldn't mount them. So now I'm running the Mandriva recovery console from the DVD, and using gpart to make a good guess at the partition table and then write it. My data is still on disk, but my fucking God its hard to save it. My music, my programming work, my movies, my photos.... I have a backup of My Documents & some media on DVD, so not everything's lost. But most of it is. </RANT> I'll post the results of gpart. :swear: :swear: :swear: :swear:
I'm now resorting to writing a blank DOS partition table with Linux fdisk. Maybe I'll be able to do a recovery of some of my files afterwards.... my karaoke program....
Wow, sounds like you're having a lot of bad luck! This afternoon I managed to get a copy of Windows 3.11 off someone, and installed that on Virtual Machine.
Wow thats sucks...Ive never had a problem ike that with Windows disk management :s Maybe your incredibly unlucky....or im incredbly lucky
Great, an 'I hate Windows thread' I love these Disk Management, it doesn't know how to handle Linux partitions, so I am not too suprised it screwed up trying to remove it. But when you say '500MB Swap Space', are you refering to the Linux swap space or a Windows partition that you dedicated to swap space?
Linux swap space partition. Should have known MS would punish me for using Linux. Anyway, guess what? I just accidentally overwrote my /home partition with Debian. Yep, its not been my day.
Ive also not had a problem with Disk Management deleting Linux partitions. Sorry about the bad luck Addis
Oh man! That's gotta hurt! If I have to use Windows in the future, i'll be running it under a virtual console where it can't do any harm to the computer. It can destroy itself all it wants to in VMware, but it won't be able to take the host OS with it Windows is like a dog, it needs to be kept on a leash. Let it off the leash and it'll run around causing havok!
theres no smiley for a state of mourning but that really sucks, judgin my luck its gonna happen right after i read th- ...
I can relate, as the last thing I did on the Windows platform was lose 350GB of accumulated data. Linux was already starting to look pretty good, so that was the last straw for me. I figured if my wife could run Linux full-time, so could I. Haven't lost any data since... In fact, I should clean up all of my old "just in case" backups that have accumulated on my server; the need for them never came. Go meta-journaled filesystems!
Unfortunately I don't have the option of Linux on the laptop, unless I use a direct ethernet connection for internet access. So I have to put up with the gradual slowdown of Windows as it ages.
Windows bashing is always the most fun when the jibes are actually facts. Ever heard of a shatter attack?
Well my father's ebay account got hacked yesterday. I have to admit I felt pretty guilty since I am responsible for securing his computer So I just wanted to say: I :swear: hate Windows; I :swear: hate Internet Explorer; I :swear: hate Windows; I :swear: hate Internet Explorer; I :swear: hate Windows; I :swear: hate Internet Explorer; I :swear: hate Windows; I :swear: hate Internet Explorer; I :swear: hate Windows; I :swear: hate Internet Explorer; It's just shocking, I've configured his account to run as a restricted user, I've installed Avast, Ad-aware and ZoneAlarm and now I've got him running Firefox. But still, hackers got through and managed to steal his eBay password. Makes me happy to be a Linux user
How would that work? Via a fake link through an email for example? Running as a restricted user takes care of most viruses. I did a spyware scan with Adware and it came up with 2 objects, but they were just low risk advertising cookies. Anti-phishing in web browsers in still lacking. Nutscape and IE 7 have it built in, but both browsers are horrible IMO I think Firefox are implementing it with version 2, not sure what Opera are doing
My mum had something like that a while ago, she'd recieved an e-mail from 'eBay' and it asked her to verify her account was still active by inputting her username, password and credit card details, she thought it was a bit suspicious and called me, I had a look at it and it was a fake, the message was from an e-mail address something stupid like: accounts [at] as122-552.ebay.com (not that exact one as I can't remember the exact e-mail, but it was something like that) It's not hard to send an e-mail to someone and have it look like it's from somewhere else, most computer users wouldn't trace the actual origins of the e-mail, they'd just see what's on the surface and believe it.
Oh :swear: I've just had a horrible thought My father received an email from eBay telling him his account had been hacked by a 3rd party. I am just wondering whether that email was legit or not. I am gonna have to look at it myself
