Computer Burnout...

Sorry to vent, but I felt if there was anywhere I could find some sympathy, it would be here :).

Don't you just hate it when you finally decide to upgrade…and end up corrupting your harddrive? :P…I just spent 24 hours trying different ways of saving my HD from the evil formater…yet to no avail. I succumbed to the dark side and decided if I can't fix it…RESET IT!…:( …

I guess the moral of this story is…BACKUP…luckily I didn't lose that much, I had a semi-recent media backup…but you may not be so lucky!

Unlucky dude! was it a new motherboard?

There's a really good app called "getdata back" its recovered my university work from formatted drives on more than one occasion PM me and ill fire you over more details ;)

nino

Naw, new operating system :)…I had xp and ubuntu, and I was 'trying' to get backtrack3 unto my hardrive…messed up my MBR, then attempted to fix that and I just completely naused up everything from there :S…figure I'll just stick with the dual boot and live boot backtrack now :angry:

how can it "mess up" your MBR? either it writes to it or not..neither will mess it up.

I'm actually not quite sure, when I installed ubuntu I used grub…then when I transfered bt3 files to the hd, it attempted to install lilo. Never used it, most forums suggested switching to lilo when dual/tri booting with bt3. So I installed it, it overwrote my then-current MBR, and when I attempted to 'nano /etc/lilo.conf', it let me edit it, but then when I attempted to initiate lilo, I got errors…:S….So fiddled around with it a bit, no luck…then used Gparted to try and boot into my windows partition and found out that it had corrupted somehow…so it really is my fault, but I have no idea how I managed that…:S

ohh im the king of wrecking the MBR but as mentioned it shouldn't bugger anything up too much.

A nitfy trick for reinstalling your MBR is using an old Ubuntu 5.10 CD go through the install CD up to the partition manager set up your partitions and it will error and through you back to a main menu skip to the bottom where there's an install GRUB option and it'll reinstall GRUB back to the MBR.