Quote from dUmAsS :

that sucks hope your day tomorrow isnt too bad.

but why would you have software that formats the drive on boot and not ask for confirmation?

My thoughts too, I am going to write an email to the company that supplied the disk.

Any the work is gone AFAIK, the disk is going to get looked at by some pro's there there is still hope.

Quote from BBO@BSR :

In my company we got a test PC's for something like that.

But how can something like this happen and who forgot that CD in there?

Don't you changed the BIOS on your dev PC (sounds like you are a dev and devs should know such simple things) to boot only from HDD instead of checking for Boot-CDs or other Bootsectors or Boot-Devices? If not hmm sry Pabs but to be honest just your personal fault :rolleyes:

True, I do know better. Another good saying is "Practice what you preech"I tell people to backup and I didn't do it myself, I am a fool

Quote from snewham :

don't think he's denying that it was his fault. Think he's just a little pi$$ed off :-(

Yip another true statement.

Oh well my boss is going to send the drive away to get it professionally looked at.

From now on I will have a backup stratagey.

Quote from Racer Y :

You wanna talk about a bad day? I was in that exodus from Houston for Hurricane Rita...... I know y'all seen that traffic jam. My wife is in Oz and she seen it. it took 23 hours to go from Houston to Dallas. It's normally a four hour drive.. and I had to do that with two kids, a dog, a Macaw (big bird), two parakeets. The damn dog slobbered and farted the whole way there. he
got sick cause of the heat. I caused a three car wreck (they all three deserved it) and drew a pistol to make sure some idiot behind me kept his temper tantrum to himself.... THAT was a bad day. But hey, it coulda been worse right?

On the plus side. I didn't lose anything from the hurricane, and only have to
clean up a bunch a branches and remove the boards from my windows.

Yip thats sounds just as bad as my day, doggy farts are the worst .

Glad that you didn;t loose anything

Well I didn't get the stuff I needed :'(

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Cheers!!

its so annoying, everything I can rebuild except this one folder, that I cant find yet.....not giving up hope......not yet.

If this software doesn't work I'll try the one from winternals

got into work today and booted up my dev PC, then my Harddisk's got wiped due to a dodgy CD in the drive that automaticaly boots from CD, and formats the disk.

The CD was to be used on a NAS disk to upgrade the firmware ,I had he cd in the drive to read the PDF, and now my hard disks have been formatted, or at least the partition table.

The bad thing is I haven't done any backups for 6 months, so basically I have lost all that work :'(

Trying sme disk recovery software, the typicall thing is I am starting to recover some files, bu tnot he stuff I realy need, sods bloody law.

So people remember to back up, life deals a crappy hand once in a while.

Cheers!!1

Doh!!! Google I forgot about that... I hate mondays...takes me till wednesday to fully wake up :P

Quote from danowat :

Nah, LFS becomes a great 2nd sicial life , and yep, I fully agree with the abive statement abiut realism, show me a more realisic racing sim.

Welcome to the sim, you'll love it.

BTW, if my speellong os off the office clown decuded to switch my keybiard round

Dan.

O/T You got that clown too

any chance to a Word Document, I would like to convert to a lit for my PPC

Firstly are animated gifs alowed here as avatars?

If so any freeware programs for creating gifs?

Welcome to the most realistic racing sim ever......

Oh say bye bye to your social life

no server not on, it was a one night special

Buzz Buzz !!!!!!!!!

Engine with 1000 bee's

Using google to translate the page I signed up

http://www.lfs-status.de/usersig/311

But pritty pointless as most forums I am reg'ed to dont allow img in sigs :P

Try sygate for a firewall, I have been using for years

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20.) Right Click the Zone Labs Folder, click Delete, and choose Yes
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22.) Right Click the file VSUtil.dll, click Delete, and choose Yes
23.) Right Click the file VSInit.dll, click Delete, and choose Yes
24.) Restart the computer

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Windows 98/ME
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01.) Click Start, Run
02.) In the Run box type in MSConfig
03.) Click OK
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06.) Click OK, then OK again
07.) Restart your computer
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keyboard and pressing Enter
09.) Once in Safe Mode close the help and support screen
10.) Double Click My Computer
11.) Click View, Folder Options, View Tab
12.) Place a dot next to "Show Hidden Files and Folders" or “Show All Files”
13.) Remove the check from "Hide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended)"
14.) Choose Yes to the warning
15.) Click OK
16.) Double click "C:"

Note: In the future steps if you do not see any files or folders, please click the
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18.) Right Click the Zone Labs Folder, click Delete, and choose Yes
19.) Close this window
20.) Click Start, My Computer
21.) Double Click the C:
22.) Double Click the Windows Folder
23.) Right Click the Internet Logs Folder, click Delete, and choose Yes
24.) Double Click the System Folder
25.) Click View, Details
26.) Right Click the Zone Labs Folder, click Delete, and choose Yes
27.) Right Click the file VSData95.VxD, click Delete, and choose Yes
28.) Right Click the file VSUtil.dll, click Delete, and choose Yes
29.) Right Click the file VSInit.dll, click Delete, and choose Yes
30.) Close this window
31.) Click Start, Run
32.) In the Run box type in RegEdit
33.) Click OK
34.) Click the + next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
35.) Click the + next to SYSTEM
36.) Click the + next to CurrentControlSet
37.) Click the + next to Services
38.) Click the + next to VxD
39.) Highlight the "VSData95" folder
40.) Press Delete, click Yes
41.) close the registry Editor
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43.) In the Run box type in MSConfig
44.) Click OK
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Why cant you uninstall ZA? Any error messages?


And I think this topic should be moved

not forgeting oil spills from engin blow ups, tyre marbles off the racing line ,etc......basically what we have in RL

Ok time to raise this from the dead...but from a different point of view

We need black flags(disqual) and black & white flag(penalty, similar to Stop & Go!!

Simply, people should be black flagged on these occasions:

1) not giving way to blue flags, basically if you ignore the blue flag for too long you should be black flagged.

2) Causing an incedent when theres a yellow flag, this one is really tricky to handle. Basically if you are driving and there is a yellow flag you should back off the gas and prepare to slow down or stop (the offical rules for any driving sport). Causing an incedent during a yellow should have a penalty black & white flag.

Also Red flags should be shown when there is a huge incedent (mainly T1 incedents :P)

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Thats about it for now,

:woohoo: Sounds like it'll be starting soon

Maybe a good idea is to delete your gfx.cfg file in the root of your LFS directory, I had problems going from a FX5200 to a FX5400 and doing this solved my problems.

Ah... now I see...hmm.......

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317680

This is for addind disclaimers using VBScript, now I wonder if you could script a image instead of text :scratch:

cant help just now, as I am not at work.

But next monday I'll play around and see what I can do ...not guarenteing anything :P

but an am 50% sure you can attach a kinda sig to the bottom of emails, some how.

I am not a genus, but I will try :P