| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 9:02:00 PM
Bummer, the board seems to be jumpin right now with TR being on Tour, and my PC completely died. I'm writing from work right now, where we just had Pamela Anderson here, and she was Kidnapped by Ali G. More on this later, maybe from a new PC if I can afford one. Laters. |
| 13 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| peewee_zz |
Posted - 03/13/2006 : 11:34:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by KevinLesko
peewee, what would be the easiest way of hooking up my old pc to the new one? I've never down that before, is it done with the computer in tact, or the hard-drive removed?
Open the old computer. Unscrew the harddrive, pull out the power and data cables. Now before putting the old computer's harddrive into the new computer, there's pins on the back of the hard drive and a single (usually black) jumper. There's a possibility that there's 2 jumpers, but you really only need one. On the control board on the bottom of the harddrive will be markings MA, SL, and CS. Put the jumper vertically under the column where SL is labeled.
Open the new computer. You'll have to do something similar to the new harddrive. If you don't have a great flashlight and long nails, your best bet is to unscrew and remove the new harddrive as well. For this one put the jumper on MA.
Now your new harddrive is the master and the bootable drive. If this is not the case message me again and I'll explain how to set this in CMOS setup.
If all works as planned, you have D: as a new harddrive and can access your files. Old programs or installation files I don't recommend copying or running because they are probobly infected.
After you have all of your old work turn off the computer and remove the old harddrive. Keep it hid away somewhere in case you forgot anything or need to do this again at a later date. Another choice is to burn all of the files to CD and keeping the CD's handy. This is nice if your old harddrive happens to be a Western Digital. Hitting a Western Digital hard drive with a baseball bat is an actual past time for us nerds.
One thing to watch out for is the make of the hard drive. If your OLD hard drive is a MAXTOR and your new harddrive IS NOT a Maxtor then the computer will ALWAYS boot from the MAXTOR. MAXTOR's are high quality, fast, reliable peices of equipment but are very proprietory. Newer MAXTOR's have to instal drivers into CMOS in order to even be recognized. This is unheard of! That control board on the bottom of the harddrive IS the driver. A harddrive that needs another driver is a defective product. If you either of your harddrives are MAXTOR's then this is probobly not worth the effort of even trying. If both are MAXTOR's then you should have no problem. To accentuate the driver thing, SCSI harddrives that do not have built in controllers require drivers. IDE and EIDE harddrives have replaced SCSI for this simple fact. Downgradeding is downgrading and should be treated as such. Imagine having to open NERO "DISK DRIVE ACCESS" just to read and write files to a harddrive. THAT'S HOW UNACCEPTABLE INSTALLING MORE DRIVERS FOR A HARDDRIVE IS! O.k. I flamed on MAxtor long enough.. lunch time
|
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 03/12/2006 : 4:49:40 PM
peewee, what would be the easiest way of hooking up my old pc to the new one? I've never down that before, is it done with the computer in tact, or the hard-drive removed? |
| peewee_zz |
Posted - 03/09/2006 : 12:12:04 AM
Your old harddrive was still usable. It's still very possible to recover all your old information if you hook up the old harddrive as the slave on the IDE and your new harddrive as Master. This sets up drive D: which is not bootable. Obviously if you had any infected programs that you tried to run again you'd be infected again, but the beuty is that you can back up everyting you want to CD/DVD and if you do get a virus on the new harddrive use the restore disc!
all your stuff is saved |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 11:40:39 PM
Kevin checking in here, from A BRAND NEW COMPUTER! Exciting that I have a brand new PC, but bummer that I had to buy it, and I lost quite a bit from my old PC. In fact, the only stuff I had backed up on data discs, were my photos, and most of my music files. One thing I did lose was all of my contact info, so if you are someone I email, or trade with regularly, can you please email me: klesko@uci.edu with your email/phone #/address etc....
The new PC is sweet. It's an HP media center, dual DVD drives (dvd burner) so now I can get in on these DVD trees!!! and it also has s-video, rca, and coaxil inputs so I can watch tv through my computer and record to dvd, or just plug my vrc right in and convert to dvd (can't wait to figure this out!) and tons of space! |
| peewee_zz |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 4:29:20 PM
Best suggestion since something probobly killed your system files is to purchase a new harddrive (or find an old harddrive) and reinstall everything. It doesn't sound like a hardware problem since you're getting as far as you are. The great thing about this method is that you can keep your old harddrive as a second harddrive and access all your old files. I do suggest that you scan the original harddrive for viruses immediataly. Many of your old applications should work as well like photoshop and many games. (most non microsoft games that write to the registry do so only to show that you registered the product, or to deactivate after 30 days.)
Before you give up hope on the current harddrive try again with the New Task dialog box by typing "cmd" and if that doesn't work try "command."
(just to make myself sound smart, the message is probobly "not a valid win32 application") |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 4:07:38 PM
I appreciate the suggestions, unfortunatley I tried that and nothing. When I type in explorer, or anything for that matter, in the run box, I get an error that says something along the lines of, "there is no program associated with this" or something like that. Same with any program I try to open with the browse option. |
| peewee_zz |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 09:09:52 AM
Providing that you have XP home or Professional then the diagnosis is easy. The solution is not so easy.
In XP what's happening is that the computer is automatically loading into safe mode (for some retarded reason Microsoft does not tell you this in XP as it had listed on the background in 95/98) The reason why nothing is loading is because the "explorer" process is the "windows" that you're missing. Press ctrl-alt-del and your task manager should come up. (It's possible that a different screen pops up with the option to log off. In this case there is a button that says task manager. Click that button and the task manager will apear)
When the task manager dialog box appears, select the processes tab. If you see any IEXPLORER processes, select them and press End Process. If you don't see any, don't worry. The next thing to try after all of the IEXPLORER processes are killed is to press file and then New Task. This will load a simple dialog box with a dropdown text box and a browse button. Type "explorer" into the text box and then press o.k.
If you have the problem that I think you have then nothing will change except you might get a dialog box stating that explorer cannot open which will disapear before you have a chance to finish reading it. In this case open up the task pane again by pressing ctrl-alt-del if it is not already open. Click on File and New Task. This time click the Browse... button and navigate to either your adware killer (spybot/adaware) or your anti-virus program and run them. At this point there's a much less likely chance that the virus causing the problem I suspect is loaded into memory. The symptoms your currently have are caused by a peice of spyware known as command service and are unrelated to the trojan dropper that installed it.
If you are still having problems or experience something different than what I described then try to describe it the best you can. Also what version of windows are you using? for this post I assumed XP.
You can also e-mail me at cabbruzz@gmail.com for help as well |
| rubylith |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 08:03:36 AM
ali g did what? |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 12:27:08 AM
quote:
any chance that the icons are just turned off? What happens when you click the "windows" button on the keyboard? normally you'd get the start menu. does that not work?
Nothing happens when I hit the windows button, or any of the "F" buttons, or right clicking... the only thing that actually works is ALT CRL DEL but that is a dead end. |
| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 12:22:29 AM
any chance that the icons are just turned off? What happens when you click the "windows" button on the keyboard? normally you'd get the start menu. does that not work?
If the computer boots (which it sounds like it does) then I would lean toward it not being a hardware problem.... |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 03/01/2006 : 12:17:28 AM
Here is the problem the best I can explain it... The other day I was laying in bed watching TV or something, and my computer was on. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw it turn off by itself, which I thought was odd, so I went over to try to turn it on and after I lof in, my desktop comes up, with no icons, no start menu, no tool bar... nothing. I can Alt, Ctl, Del, but when I try to run any program, it says it isn't there. I tried signing on in safe mode as well, and the same thing, there is just a blank screen staring back at me. I can't run my spyware remover, I can't run my vius potection, and I don't have a windows disc to reinstall windows.
Luckily I have most of my digital photos, and music files backed up on data discs, but that is where it stands. I'm more than willing to try any ideas. |
| peewee_zz |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 10:25:33 PM
I am a specialist:
Describe the problem as best you can. What are the steps to recreate the problem? Is it plugged in?
If you are crippled to the point where you can't even post on a message board I bet that you have a monitor or viseo card problem and only get a black screen |
| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 9:47:50 PM
what happened exactly, maybe we can fix it! or at least salvage whatever data you have on the drives.... I'm no specialist, but I have some fun playing... I could try to help. |
|
|
