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2008-01-24 06:21:32

#1

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

Ok this is a weird one. Here goes.

This has happened about 5 or 6 times the first time being one and a half years ago. It happened again.

I use the main user account that windows creates when it is installed. Usually defaulted as "Owner", my mother has her own user account on the computer as well. Nothing EVER happens to mine. My user account is always perfectly fine, but my mothers is always fucked up. Now the thing that happened 5 times in the past few years happened again, and heres what it is.

All files that are in FOLDERS get corrupted. Pictures are corrupted and there is no picture and the file cant be open. Text files are filled with lines of "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" or very weird symbols you dont see very often like the copyright sine and a double upside down T. PDF files are corrupted, docs, rtfs, everything that is IN folders. Any of those said file types outside folders remain completely fucking fine. I am at a total fucking loss as to what causes this to happen only on my mothers end of the PC. Has this happened to anyone or am I alone in this weird stage of events?

2008-01-24 06:25:40

#2

gvers: Bad at BF:BC2; +109|6952|The Real World

No heard of that before. Have you tried deleting her account and creating a new one? + the usual AV scan etc

2008-01-24 06:28:00

#3

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

gvers wrote:
No heard of that before. Have you tried deleting her account and creating a new one? + the usual AV scan etc

Ive completely erased the hard drive at least 3 times since the first time it happened for unrelated reasons and it still happens.

2008-01-24 06:30:25

#4

Slickdawg8: Visit TAW.NET; +58|7057|Long Island

What I would do is completely reformat your hard drive, being sure to save any important files to a disk/flash drive, reinstall the operating system, and then do NOT use the "Owner" account again. Make seperate administrator accounts for you and your mom.

2008-01-24 06:43:40

#5

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6661|the land of bourbon

save her mydocs, and delete her user profile. it will be recreated the next time she logs on. see if the problem is gone. in all honesty, it sounds like a pebkac to me.

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2008-01-24 06:49:37

#6

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

Slickdawg8 wrote:
What I would do is completely reformat your hard drive, being sure to save any important files to a disk/flash drive, reinstall the operating system, and then do NOT use the "Owner" account again. Make seperate administrator accounts for you and your mom.

The "Owner" account has never had any problems though. I wouldnt exactly be pleased if by making another account for myself all my shit got fucked up if that happened again. I should be recieving a 250GB external HD sometime today so if I choose to reformat my PC then Ill have most things backed up.

steelie34 wrote:
save her mydocs, and delete her user profile. it will be recreated the next time she logs on. see if the problem is gone. in all honesty, it sounds like a pebkac to me.

How would that help if it deletes everything on the user profile? The problem seems to happen randomly every once in a while. I cant really think of anything being done that was done the last 5 times this happened. Quite odd. lol@pebkac

Last edited by Dragonclaw (2008-01-24 06:52:15)

2008-01-24 07:55:54

#7

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6477|Winland

How is it like fucking weird problems? Aren't they a bit... Abstract for that?

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-01-24 08:04:54

#8

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

Freezer7Pro wrote:
How is it like fucking weird problems? Aren't they a bit... Abstract for that?

xcuse me wtf r u tlkin bout?

Wut happend 2 s00per p3a?

2008-01-24 08:18:32

#9

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6477|Winland

Dragonclaw wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
How is it like fucking weird problems? Aren't they a bit... Abstract for that?
xcuse me wtf r u tlkin bout?

Wut happend 2 s00per p3a?

Fucking as a verb - You are fucking [two] weird problems.

And SuperPea... I abandoned him.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-01-24 08:20:22

#10

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6661|the land of bourbon

so it comes and goes? thats fucked up, never heard of anything like that... windows uses the hidden "default" user profile as a template when a new user logs on. the corruption could be coming from there. but what you describe as it just sort of happens over time, is really weird.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-01-24 08:22:02)

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2008-01-24 08:26:16

#11

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

steelie34 wrote:
so it comes and goes? thats fucked up, never heard of anything like that... windows uses the hidden "default" user profile as a template when a new user logs on. the corruption could be coming from there. but what you describe as it just sort of happens over time, is really weird.

My PC has always been retarded with dual user accounts. Ever since I bought it 4 years ago the second account created is always fucked up over time for some reason. I blame gateway.

2008-01-24 08:26:29

#12

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7122|Alberta, Canada

Weord problem. Never heard of a case that weird before. Only thing you can try is formatting your hard drive and starting fresh.

2008-01-24 08:29:49

#13

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

Ryan wrote:
Weord problem. Never heard of a case that weird before. Only thing you can try is formatting your hard drive and starting fresh.

Done it 3 times since the first time it happened.

2008-01-24 08:31:15

#14

iNeedUrFace4Soup: fuck it; +348|6825

Buy a 2nd computer. :p

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2008-01-24 08:37:01

#15

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

iNeedUrFace4Soup wrote:
Buy a 2nd computer. :p

Send money. Via paypal.

Last edited by Dragonclaw (2008-01-24 08:37:20)

2008-01-24 08:40:55

#16

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6661|the land of bourbon

for what its worth... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/811151

but who knows, since you've reformatted so many times. maybe one of the cab files on your windows cd is fubar'd. good luck

https://bf3s.com/sigs/36e1d9e36ae924048a933db90fb05bb247fe315e.png

2008-01-24 08:44:17

#17

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

steelie34 wrote:
for what its worth... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/811151

but who knows, since you've reformatted so many times. maybe one of the cab files on your windows cd is fubar'd. good luck

I erase the hard drive and reinstall windows with a restore CD. It doesnt leave anything behind.

2008-01-24 08:59:21

#18

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6661|the land of bourbon

Dragonclaw wrote:
steelie34 wrote:
for what its worth... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/811151

but who knows, since you've reformatted so many times. maybe one of the cab files on your windows cd is fubar'd. good luck
I erase the hard drive and reinstall windows with a restore CD. It doesnt leave anything behind.

aha! ditch the restore CD... they are notoriously buggy, especially with those preconfigured images. you're much better off using a plain vanilla XP cd, and doing the drivers on your own. i've done tech support for a loooong time, and gateway restore cd's are completely worthless.

edit: what i meant about one of the cab files being bad was that one of the installer files on the CD itself might be screwed. so even after a reformat it could just be copying corrupted data back to the HD from the cd.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-01-24 09:00:36)

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2008-01-24 09:01:06

#19

Dragonclaw: Member; +186|6585|Florida

steelie34 wrote:
Dragonclaw wrote:
steelie34 wrote:
for what its worth... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/811151

but who knows, since you've reformatted so many times. maybe one of the cab files on your windows cd is fubar'd. good luck
I erase the hard drive and reinstall windows with a restore CD. It doesnt leave anything behind.
aha! ditch the restore CD... they are notoriously buggy, especially with those preconfigured images. you're much better off using a plain vanilla XP cd, and doing the drivers on your own. i've done tech support for a loooong time, and gateway restore cd's are completely worthless.

edit: what i meant about one of the cab files being bad was that one of the installer files on the CD itself might be screwed. so even after a reformat it could just be copying corrupted data back to the HD from the cd.

I dont have a windows XP CD, lol. Also my PC is ancient, I dont expect to find drivers for it other than on that CD, even the gateway site is useless for that. Its shitty drivers fuck shit up instead of updating it.

Last edited by Dragonclaw (2008-01-24 09:02:11)

2008-01-24 09:04:45

#20

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6661|the land of bourbon

well, maybe you can get away with system restore. if the shit goes bananas again, try to use the windows sys restore to revert back to when it was working. but you might have to live with it unfortunately... sorry i cant help more.

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2008-01-24 09:05:34

#21

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7122|Alberta, Canada

Dragonclaw wrote:
Ryan wrote:
Weord problem. Never heard of a case that weird before. Only thing you can try is formatting your hard drive and starting fresh.
Done it 3 times since the first time it happened.

Hmm... makes no sense. I don't know what to do man, sorry.

2008-01-24 09:08:22

#22

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6877|Seattle

Try this: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/ … 39820.aspx ?

I don't know man, that's a weird problem you've got there...

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2008-01-24 09:13:58

#23

iNeedUrFace4Soup: fuck it; +348|6825

Dragonclaw wrote:
iNeedUrFace4Soup wrote:
Buy a 2nd computer. :p
Send money. Via paypal.

Steal a 2nd computer?

https://i.imgur.com/jM2Yp.gif

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