Some GOTM submissions lost

[Matrix]

My harddisk has been accidentally(!) repartitioned! Therefore I lost all the data on it. I did backup my harddisk some days ago, so I didn't loose everything. However, I might have lost some GOTM submissions. If your name is <U>not</U> in the following list but you did submit before, please submit again.</P>

These are the played of whom I still have their submission:
RJP, kittenOFchaos, William Heisse, mikels, Smash, GeneralHotRod and Mad Russian.</P>

Sorry for the inconvenience.</P><HR>
<font color="#000080">If you want to know how this happened: Using Partition Magic 6.0 I created three primary partitions, namely for Windows 2000, Windows 98 and MS-DOS (and a shared logical partition, but that doesn't matter) and with Boot Magic I was able to boot from these three different partition. I already had Windows 2000; I activated the Win98 partition, so the Win2000 was invisible. Then I was able to install Win98; all going well... I did the same thing with DOS, BUT MS-DOS thought it was a good idea to completely repartition the whole harddisk. Therefore, everything was gone!

Luckily, I recently bought a new harddisk (with which I was working on what I just said), and I copied the old harddisk to my new harddisk (using Norton Ghost )(yes, I'm fully equiped

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[TrailblazingScot]

Good thing you never lost mine...me being in Spain and all! If you´d lost 4 hours of hard gaming I would be so mad...hehe It is if you´ve lost the spaceship gits work and they hadn´t backed up! THAT WOULD BE FUNNY!

 

[Matrix]

It's always better to backup your own submission until the results are in. The email might not arrive at all, as happened to Jabah last GOTM...

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[moksliukas]

Just another reason to hate Microsoft products. (Sorry, I am a Linux fan, just couldn't resist)

 

[bvd]

I recall using the FDISK utility long ago (10 years ago, for that matter) to repartition my parent's hard-drive. I was very, very bored at the time, and couldn't resist reading the MS-DOS 5.0 manual (600+ pages) cover to cover, though at the time I hadn't used a computer for more than five minutes. My juvenile logic impelled me to create a drive "D" in addition to "C", as two just had to be better than one ...

Fortunately, I was smart enough to backup ALL saved documents, and was able to restore them along with Windows 3.0; my parents never knew

moksliukas, here's an interesting side-note: At the time, an auxiliary DOS, cleverly named "DR DOS", was becoming very popular among PC users, even those using Windows 3.0. Having more features and costing virtually nothing, it threatened to supercede MS DOS 5.0's universality. But within a year it fell completely out of use. How?

A business tactic, first contrived by IBM, called "FUD".

Fear, uncertainty, doubt. The acronym is used heavily in Microsoft memos, and we see the company's first use of its strategy in this scenario. When Windows 3.1 was first released, users noticed that it wasn't compatible with DR DOS; a trivial error message (apparently intentionally placed there) appeared whenever Windows started. Concurrently, Microsoft announced the premature release of MS DOS 6.0. I've used both 5.0 and the latter - believe me, THEY'RE THE SAME. In the end, we saw the birth of a terrifying Microsoft monopoly. God help us all.

 

[Az]

Well Matrix that would have never happened to you if you were on...MAC!!! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif" border=0>

With the great program called Rewind....<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/mwaha.gif" border=0><IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/mwaha.gif" border=0>

(Sorry, I am a MAC fan, just couldn't resist)

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[This message has been edited by Az (edited July 24, 2001).]

 

[willemvanoranje]

I hadn't finished my game anyway. You should have it now, Matrix.

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[GenghisK]

Arg, I'm not in that list. Mmm, I hope I still have it...
Btw, Partition Magic is a great tool, and normally dynamically resizes everything. Unless you are a hippo, how could you do such mistake?

 

[Matrix]

How could I know MS-DOS would do such a thing??

Did you found your savegames, GK?

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[shadowdale]

You are not to blame MAtrix an dyes he found the savegame and he'll send it later today!!!

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[GenghisK]

Thanks for replying for me. It spares me from having to do it, so I'll be more available to bash Hippo

But I'm so surprised and so touched that at least 2 people do care about my GOTM

Perhaps they don't want to miss an opportunity to have a good laugh after the results release

j/k

 

[starlifter]

Then I was able to install Win98; all going well... I did the same thing with DOS, BUT MS-DOS thought it was a good idea to completely repartition the whole harddisk. Therefore, everything was gone!

Hey dude,

I've been gone for 2 weeks and just sent my GOTM 6 to you, and read this.

Though I know you long since fixed your HD problem, I thought you might like to know the data was not really lost. It can all be recovered automatically or manually in a matter of minutes with several utilities, esp. Norton Utilities. The process is greatly accelerated is you create NU Image files.

Just use NU to create the "image" files for each partition (takes less than 10 seconds) periodically. Even if your FORMAT an entire drive, the data can be 100% recovered... assuming it had not yet been overwritten!

Another good utility is Fixit 3.0, which works under Win2000 natively, too.

I've been running similiar setups and multiple OSs for 15 years on dozens of computers, and have developed many self-defenses with PM, NU, and FixIt (as well as special-use software), and it really helps when the inevitable crash occurs.

BTW, if you are using MS-DOS 6.22, you are wasting losts of cluster space if you are sharing readable partitions. If you are using MS-DOS 7.0 or greater and using FAT32, you're fine. Of course, PM can easily create the structure you want.

Assuming you are using FAT32 in Win2K, It is safer, datawise, to install Win2K to a logical partition on your 1st or 2nd IDE. Keep Win98 on your C: drive. Win98 and Win2K can backe each other up, and perform utilities and recoveries for the other while having each partion fully visible to the other, too.

With Ghost, you do have a solid backup... even though it takes a few minutes to do the actual backup.

 

[Matrix]

I never understood what these images actually ment, but now I do. Thanks, starlifter!

Only, I don't know how to use them (although I have and I love Norton Utilities). But I know a friend who will be able to help me with that...

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