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[anadate]

ok guys im pulling my hair out one cause i purchased a dell in the first place second cause it fookin sucks ass.
anyway the problem is this played css last night on server three left when a buddy of mine got here and he was wanting to see fear... started loading it up and boom error.. no biggie just assumed i needed a reboot. so i rebooted to the blue screen of death rebooted again it came up but with the original windows xp desktop background everything was gone.. EVEN CSS. so i got pissed reinstalled some antiadware spyware sh*t doing the scans.. i think adware professional found like 34 items just porn sh*t nothing big didn't look it.. when i deleted it i figured id do another reboot real quick before i started running some virus sh*t.... blue screen of death.. now its like my computer doesn't have a hard drive i finally got the thing in dos threw there resource cd.. (i work best in dos to bad it sucks ass on windows xp) anyway thats when i realized i didn't even have a drive c: anymore it was drive b: now and that it didn't have any sh*t on it that i recognized... its as if my hard drive just crashed.. is that possible maybe a bad drive a friend in IT already suggested doing a scandisk and refrag and i would if i knew what the hell i was doing it on or how to get to where to do it.. any suggestions people.. any suggestions people? could it be a bad hard drive, trojan, maybe the hard drive got full.....
im currently doing a extended system test for memory ect.. ect.. tried to do the custom but even in the custom list there was nothing about the hard drive .....

I am so fookin frustrated right now.. wheres that damn rant and rave column ... f*ckin ever since vacation with my wifes sister and her dickhead husband.. my life has been hell and now i can't even get my dose of css to calm me down wtf... and if it costs money you can forget that sh*t.. first month since january that ive paid my mortgage on time and the damn rear end went out of my truck wednesday and found out that was gonna cost me 1200 bucks... by the way is that a good price??? (silverado 99' 2wd) anyway thats another matter.. right now i need to drink and shoot something.. and css would be a nice alternative... i think im just gonna go to sleep..... by the way if your wondering this is my wifes computer it just happens to suck major ass is why i can't play css on this i don't think .001 fps would cut it

[DarkShadow]

could be a bad harddrive, but that seems unlikely, you said your drive is on B: ? that isnt even possible normally.

Usually it starts from C: and goes down to Z:... but B:, thats f*ckin odd, Id contact dell and if they cant figure it out, im sure they will make you send something in, But i dunno I never buy prebuilts as they all tend to suck in one way or another.

[Fluke]

hey man ,, how new is the puter? is it still under warranty? if so id call dell and get their asses over ther to fix it f*ck goin nuts over it. i ve dealt with dell b4 there puters arent the greatest but if u gota prob their customer service/technicians are pretty good and if its still under warranty they come to the house and fix it.they will do anything/everything to get it werkin they want to keep u as a customer. i got a dell for my mom and the mother board went in a week they were at the house in 2 days with a new motherboard replaced it and the sh*t werks fine now

[anadate]

im going nuts been on with dell support chat for about 4 hours now.. i keep asking them why i go into dos i get 900k of files reading on both drives a: and b: which shouldn't be there and about 7k on c: ...

thanks for the tips guys.. its appreciated

[Fluke]

yeah unfortunately u gotta play the phone game with them first

[Sniprwulf]

That's some funky stuff going on. I've dealt w/a few viruses before w/the blue screen of death. This sounds more virus related than faulty h/d. Format and start from scratch if nothing else. One way to troubleshoot the issue w/the hardrives, disconnect them and go into your bios. Check some stuff out, drives etc. like where the floppys at and the cd drive. Reconnect ur harddrive and find out where that is in bios. If all is well in bios, defly a virus then. Format.

[NC Derek]

you can go to run and type msconfig and play around with how it reboots, different setups and see whats running. can anyone tell me how this blue screen of death is caused or what it is. i havnt had one, but 3 people have in the last few weeks. i dont have anything backed up or money so if theres a way to prevent this or something online that tells you about it, could someone enlighten me? sh*t i wish i could help ya man.

[IWantWhiteCastle]

you can go to run and type msconfig and play around with how it reboots, different setups and see whats running. can anyone tell me how this blue screen of death is caused or what it is. i havnt had one, but 3 people have in the last few weeks. i dont have anything backed up or money so if theres a way to prevent this or something online that tells you about it, could someone enlighten me? sh*t i wish i could help ya man.

It happens when there is a serious error with your computer, usually meaning some hardware might be f*cked up. It goes to the error screen and reports it to you so that it doesnt damage your computer any farther.

[Frag0holic]

lol normally A: is for 3.5" floppy and B: is a relic from pre pentium times. dunno the exact size of those diskettes but they were friggin huge.
Seems like Dell screwed up yet another computer :P

[anadate]

ok people i should be good to go.. dell was half way helpful but not really they did get me to a point where i could restore my computer from a previous date which was wonderful... I really have to stress defrag!!! i never really worried with it before but apparently because of my dumbass self turning off adware pro and all my other protection and not turning it back on before go porn jumpin from site to site.. i had roughly 60 different variants of spyware 10 different viruses didn't look like nothing major but it did take me 4 hours for defrag before i could do anything .. i truely don't know what was wrong with my computer but as someone said earlier format and start over i was going to try that in dos until i realized i had an a b and c partition when i should only had one.. anyway thanks for reading my b*tchin earlier.. glad its fixed lookin forward to a couple of hours of css now or at least until my wife wakes up ...

had to edit this in .. when you buy a pos computer like a dell keep the disk they send with them.. especially the one labeled recovery!!!

Edited by anadate, 13 November 2005 - 03:15 PM.

[Novahawk]

OOOOOO... this reminds me of a funny story... so when my brother got an ibm thinkpad this year... he like broke it like a month after he got it... as in windows wouldnt boot... so he inserted the ibm recovery disk.. and what the disk did was totally wipe his hard drive and then it told him that recovery failed because the hard drive was empty... it was hilarious.. even more because ibm did not include any disks except the recovery, not even the windows instalation cd.. and his laptop came included with a bunch of software because he bought through his college for the computer science major.. (and got a nice sale ) and the disks with the software werent included.. so i laughed at him.. because he was screwed.. but he made a back up of his whole hard drive and put it on our old computer (which has a huge hard drive that we dont use.. ) so it turned out well... but also.. for some reason his laptop wouldnt see the old computer on our network, only our other computer... so he had to put the back up on that computer and that day our gigabit network was working really slow for some reason.. it was a really unlucky day for him damn that was alot of typing...

[kidcapri]

ok in dos you can actually delete the partitions. Since most of the computer manufacturers don't include a copy of windows (because microsoft is so f*cking greedy) they partition the hard drive and have one of the partitions act as a backup. I'm guessing the b drive was your backup partition in this case. The best thing you can do is get a (as shadow calls it) "special" version of windows xp. If you get a windows 98 boot disk you can put that into your a drive and restart your computer. It should go ahead and boot to the a drive. Then just type fdisk and delete the partions. That was the old fashioned way of deleting partitions and formatting a hard drive. You can now do it with the windows xp disc. Then install your "special" version of windows.

Oh and frag those discs are called five and a quarters. They are f*cking prehistoric now. Damn i need to get one of those drives and put it into my computer now. HAHA that would be funny. I could play crystal caves all day long.

LoL anyboday remember gorillas. That old ass q-basic game. That was the sh*t.

[Dwkillzone]

Yeah of course i would try calling dell like everyone else said. The only thing that is bad about that is most of them don't speak much english. LOL. So have fun with that!!. Otherwise that only thing that i could think of it being would be a hardware issue. Sometjhing such as a bad hard drive or even ram. As far as your hard drive being recognized as the B:/ drive, that is not normal. usually hard drives are set up to automatically set as the c:/ drive. Generally a second floppy drive or even a zip drive would be considered B:/. So good luck with the puter and let us know what happens.

[kidcapri]

Well if the partition is around 6 gigs in size then it is definately your backup partition. Which is kind of pointless, because when your hard drive crashes so do the partitions. Thats just f*cking stupid. Mother f*cking computer manufacturers are cheap as hell.

[Dwkillzone]

Yeah i just found out on my old computer i had built i was having the same problem. Not sure why, but my dad wanted to get it up and running again for my sisters. Anyways he says that he was not able to start the computer up and was getting blue screens as well. He ending taking out the secondary hard drive and the computer started right up. WTF!!! Ya never know what is behind the problem. Until you figure it out and look back on it and be like im a idiot. LOL.