Pfiuuuuuuu
By glazou on Tuesday 2 May 2006, 14:56 - Computing - Permalink
- desinstall an old linux distro that you don't need any more to increase the size of your full c:\
- reboot
- discover that your MBR is completely fucked up and you can't reboot your machine at all
- try the repair console of your WinXP CD and discover your Admin account is locked (why the hell is it locked ? I never touched that) so you cannot repair your machine!
- visit my good and old friend Jean-Claude Bellamy's web site and discover he has a solution to blank the admin password
- burn the iso onto a cd and use that cd ; unlock the admin account and clear the admin password
- finally use your repair console and call fixmbr
- shout "yay!" and reboot
- discover with horror you lost your data partition with your mozilla trees and work documents
- use a partition editor able to restore a completely hidden partition
- reboot, and start to breathe again, letting your adrenaline level slowly decrease...
Comments
Don't you back up your data ?
Tips: ultimate boot cd ( www.ultimatebootcd.com/) et testdisk ro><orise des ourses en meute.
J'ai aussi flingué ma table de partition sur mon disque de données il y a une semaine ...
... and say "I'll never forget to backup anymore ;)"
There's a reason I spent money to get a second hard disk. I put Linux on that.
Ludovic and others : I do have backups. But restoring a whole config - including the changes of the day - takes time, and time is an expensive resource.
WeirdAl: it's on a laptop... and my laptop is old enough to be unable to boot from USB.
12. install a serious OS
"time is an expensive resource"
And nobody has enough stock.....
C'est tellement du vécu... je me sens moins seul ! ! ! ! !
0. sauvegarder ses données avant de bidouiller
:D