Well, I am living proof that it's a good idea to store your vital stuff online.  I was trying to resize a partition today and something screwed up somewhere and I lost everything on two of my four partitions.  Fortunately, FS was one of the ones I didn't lose, even though it was the one I wanted to resize.  I did lose my windows partition, and my music partition with every CD I had stored from my collection (not bootlegged), and several that were bootlegged.  I also lost every picture, document, and file I needed. 

All gone... 

So, just for the hell of it; did this ever happen to you?

Bootlegging music my dear Pippin. Tsk tsk, you could go to jail now.

I must admit that I messed up my BIOS not too long ago. I had to reset the COMOS for my computer to work.

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I really don't care but I heard on the news that they were doing a major crackdown. Most of my MP3s are from CDs and LPs. The rest of my stuff I downloaded because it's impossible to find anywhere else.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to get one of them portable HD units they have now. Lets face it, Zip, Jazz, Syquest, CDs and even DVDs are too small. It would take nearly 17 CDs to back up my system alone. Even at 16X, it would take forever to do. The other thing that has that capacity are tape drives but look at the price of them, nearly $1000. I use mainly CDs and my 16mb compact flash drive to back up my important stuff. Instead of buying a new processor, I think I'll install a Firewire card and a high speed external drive.

By the way, this just happened to my brother in-law last week.  I spent the weekend getting his stuff back.

/Benjamin

That's happened to me more times than I care to admit .  I usually have a system meltdown every six months or so, I better be quiet though or I'll talk another one up.

Will

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This happened to me just last week. I don't know how or what caused it. As it happened once before I do know how to fix it, providing you can boot into Safe Mode. (This is on Win98/Me. XP might be different.)

The corrupted file is named System.ini - in the C:\WINDOWS folder. This is a simple text file (like the CFG files in FS) defining the boot sequence for your particular system. There should be a backup copy of this file named SYSTEM.---, SYSTEM.I~I or similar in the same folder. I used Notepad to copy/paste the contents of the backup file over the original corrupted text, rebooted & Hey Presto!.  

If the system won't run anyway I think this is worth a try & might save a lot of time & work. I naturally took backup copies of both files before editing anything.

PS. This can also be done in DOS mode by renaming files. Swap the backup file for the original. You would obviously need to know the extension of the backup file.

PPS. I just found this. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/s...

Sorry to hear about the computer problems...

I have a laptop and a desktop, so every couple of days I synchronize both computers to each other.  Doing this will almost always gaurantee that I will never lose another file again. 

On the bright side, the computer should run better when you reformat!

Have fun!

Silly Boy

This, or something like it, has happened to me twice. First time I lost everything and had nothing backed up. I've never made that mistake again.
Sorry to hear about your lost stuff Pippin, hope you get it at least some of it again.