Any Comp savy people :O

[JBroll]

Pick up an external hard drive and an Ubuntu live CD and start making backups just in case. If you don't have backups of most things on your computer, you've been begging for this kind of issue for quite some time and you're very lucky that you're not completely hosed... don't tempt fate again.

Jeff

 

[felipe-x]

did you try Restoring windows? this may be your salvation!

do you remember the last date when it works? remember to save the files from your desktop and move them to anywhere inside c:

try that!

 

[CatharsisStudios]

i just need more space turns out plus the computer is fragged as fuck all

 

[LeSedna]

I never have such a problem, because I clean my computer a lot.

- First, if you say your problem if definitelay computer space, then give it some space (my C: drive always have 30% of space minimum! and my other always 10 or 15% too) copying your files on another hard drive.
- If you can't, just buy a 1To hd and problem solved
- then, I recommand you my war tools : Auslogics Disk Defrag (or Defraggler if the last version bugs like it bugs on me, but this defragger is almost perfect and fast), Auslogics Registry Cleaner, Auslogics Registry Defrag, Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, CCleaner (use also the registry cleaner functionality), Comodo Internet Security or any antivirus/firewall that works well, Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware, and have Recuva too because it can save your life and it's free.
- With that, you can defrag everyday your drives, it doesn't last more than a few minutes, at least on my XP it's that case. And quite often clean your registry with both Auslogics registry cleaner and CCleaner. And some time to time, virusscan and malwaresbyte your hd.
- now you won't have any problem

 

[JBroll]

Quick clarification... if you ever wind up with an SSD, defragging is a bad thing. It'll fail to help performance at all and will wear the drive unnecessarily.

Jeff

 

[Fragle]

microsoft, especially vista, is the BIGGEST PIECE OF SHIT known to mankind.

i'm not joking. vista is all around HORRIBLE. all the "jokes" above like "that's a feature not a bug" etc are the fucking TRUTH.
check this out: on 10:58 today i started my computer. at 11:07 it was finished with booting and finally had a working internet connection. thats NINE FUCKING MINUTES!
thank god i have xp on my music workstation....that one runs flawlessy (despite of the usual microsoft bullshit....eg opening the explorer and it starts to access the dvd drive for no reason, slowing the whole thing down etc). takes like 8 seconds to boot. haven't seen a bluescreen for at least 6 months if not more (thank god ^^).
people might think my laptop has some issues, but i can assure you i bought it NEW and it has been like that from the very beginning. it's just vista. same thing goes for my g/f pc, except her's is a tiny bit faster as it's a way more powerful machine. still no comparison to my xp driven music workstation.

sorry for the rant, but it's just the fucking TRUTH. i'm SO fed up with all that microsoft BS.

will get a macbook pro next year.....

 

[Morgan C]

Quick clarification... if you ever wind up with an SSD, defragging is a bad thing. It'll fail to help performance at all and will wear the drive unnecessarily.

Jeff

What's an SSD..?

 

[JBroll]

Fragle, a few of your problems (like the drive scanning) might be fixed by using a better file manager than Explorer - FreeCommander might do it for you. While you're at it, replace your shell with LiteStep (or, if you're awesome, bb4win) and see if that helps.

Morgan, SSD is short for 'solid-state drive' - the new, fancy, incredibly expensive and fast drives that have been replacing 'old' spinning-disk-of-death hard drives in some places. When made right, they consume less energy and are significantly faster and more reliable than the usual drives. You'll run into them on many laptops (including lots of netbooks) and occasional desktops.

Jeff

 

[Morgan C]

^ That explains it..

I need to get a new harddrive as I'm running out of space and my current drives are too slow. Is a SSD a better option than a 'regular' external HD atm, or is the price/reward ratio not good enough yet? Sorry to derail the thread, although it appears Ryan's problem has been solved.

 

[JBroll]

I'd put an OS on an SSD... and nothing else. They get very expensive as you go up in size, and are significantly smaller than dizzy-platter drives, so you wind up looking at an order of magnitude difference in the size/price ratio. Stick with a 'traditional' external drive... or save a bit of coin and get better components by using an internal drive in an enclosure.

Jeff

 

[Morgan C]

I'd put an OS on an SSD... and nothing else. They get very expensive as you go up in size, and are significantly smaller than dizzy-platter drives, so you wind up looking at an order of magnitude difference in the size/price ratio. Stick with a 'traditional' external drive... or save a bit of coin and get better components by using an internal drive in an enclosure.

Jeff

Ok thanks. Unfortunately I'm on a laptop, but I really need a whole new computer so I'll keep that in mind when I can afford/justify building a desktop.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Is it wrong that I've never ever had problems with Windows Vista the whole time I've had it?
Could it possible be, you know, user error that people are getting problems with it? Because I've had Vista for 2 years and have never had any issues at all what so ever to do with the OS. I just do the usual virus scans, defrags etc and it always seems to be in good shape.
Maybe I'm just extremely lucky, I don't know, but I'm sure the OS is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be if myself and many others have never had issues with it.

 

[Morgan C]

^ Yes and no.. I had a weird bug that made crackles in the sound. It was never my audio machine but any audio would crackle. Known bug, only fixable by completely reinstalling the OS. Other than that I don't think it was THAT bad. The only really annoying thing it introduced (apart from the UAC, thankfully disablable in W7) is that 'do you want to scan this drive' whenever I plug in my iPod, which has carried on to W7.

 

[Harry Hughes]

^Never heard of that problem before admittedly.
You've made me paranoid it will happen to me now

 

[Morgan C]

^Never heard of that problem before admittedly.
You've made me paranoid it will happen to me now

Nah its either there or not upon installation. It's not something that can develop. And by the time I had realised it was Vista's fault, well I cbf reinstalling the whole thing.

 

[Notuern]

Is it wrong that I've never ever had problems with Windows Vista the whole time I've had it?
Could it possible be, you know, user error that people are getting problems with it? Because I've had Vista for 2 years and have never had any issues at all what so ever to do with the OS. I just do the usual virus scans, defrags etc and it always seems to be in good shape.
Maybe I'm just extremely lucky, I don't know, but I'm sure the OS is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be if myself and many others have never had issues with it.

Same here.. had a bluescreen once because of massive driver clash, and that was my fault for not remembering to uninstall my old GFX drivers!
That and my Focusrite Saffire card, but that was Focusrite's fault.. sent it back for firmware update, and it worked out fine.
Other then those 2 things, ive never had any problems what so ever.

But ive come to realize that Vista's stability is related to hardware.
I installed my brothers computer, exact same way as i did with mine.. he got bluescreens like once an hour!

 

[JBroll]

Ok thanks. Unfortunately I'm on a laptop, but I really need a whole new computer so I'll keep that in mind when I can afford/justify building a desktop.

You'll generally pay quite a bit more for a reasonably-sized SSD. Some things (like the Asus Eee and some ultra-lightweight things designed to last until the apocalypse under moderate use) have them already, but nobody will hide the fact that an SSD is running the show because they're a big selling point.

Jeff

 

[reg3n]

(or, if you're awesome, bb4win)

Jeff

I'm awesome =) been using blackbox for quite some time. It's ok for deskmodding, but sometimes all the mod things get a bit painful...

 

[Josh M.]

- remove the hdd with all the precious stuff
- insert into different computer, virusscan and backup
- re-insert hdd back in to your computer
- windows repair install from the cd (no formatting)

How I fixed a computer that wouldn't boot/