Sometimes the universe just hates you

_RiO_
_RiO_ Posts: 1,047 Chairperson of the Boards
edited January 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
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.

icon_e_surprised.gif <-- My face when the system BSODs during boot
icon_eek.gif <-- 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.

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

...

icon_evil.gif <-- 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. icon_e_wink.gif

*) $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.

Comments

  • rednailz
    rednailz Posts: 559
    You should demand to Microsof that they reimburse you 1250 HP for the cover!
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    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. icon_lol.gif
  • rednailz
    rednailz Posts: 559
    GothicKratos wrote:
    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. icon_lol.gif

    lol...nicely played

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