Sometimes the universe just hates you

_RiO_

So here's me totally in line for a top 150 finish and a brand new purple Doom cover.
One day before the event finishes I boot up Steam in preparation for another push in the Hulk event and the system freezes up with 100% CPU usage while loading Steam, before becoming responsive again. Not wanting to risk my savegame sync with Steam cloud going nuts, I decide to reboot first and start clean.

<-- My face when the system BSODs during boot
<-- My face when it enters 'startup repair' mode and reports "C:\$Secure is corrupted" *

Doom now being the least of my concerns, I'm faced with total loss of the data I hadn't backed up yet (don'tcha know; I had a backup scheduled the next day after the system failed...) and the potential of hardware failure meaning further expenditures for replacement. So, I get stuck in repair mode for 2 days straight.

After waiting that long, I finally get fed up with Microsoft's repair tool doing nothing but sitting there and spinning in the mud. I pop in a Linux DVD and live boot from it.

<-- My face when Linux mounts all my NTFS partitions fine.
<-- My face when it turns out all my data is 100% ok and the SMART stats on the drive report all green.

...

<-- My face when realization sinks in that Microsoft has just trolled me out of Doom's purple by spending over 2 days attempting to repair problems Linux can happily skip over... on a file system designed by Microsoft in the first place...


TINY - <<INSERT STUPID LONG STRING OF EXPLETIVES>> - KITTY !!!

Oh well; time to move everything of value to my NAS and then format and reinstall...
...
Think it'd help to kindly ask D3P to take pity and grant me a purple Doom cover?
Nah... didn't think so either.

*) $Secure is a system-level hidden folder that's part of the NTFS file system itself. Getting it corrupted means your file system integrity is pretty much toast.

rednailz

You should demand to Microsof that they reimburse you 1250 HP for the cover!

GothicKratos

rednailz wrote:

You should demand to Microsof that they reimburse you 1250 HP for the cover!

They'd just send him a digital copy of Halo: ODST.

rednailz

GothicKratos wrote:

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rednailz wrote:

You should demand to Microsof that they reimburse you 1250 HP for the cover!

They'd just send him a digital copy of Halo: ODST.

lol...nicely played