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Almost Blew up teacher's HDD.

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Deadtrees

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I was taking a look at this teacher(a photography mentor to be exact)'s computer and realized that his BIOS was not set up (Asus P4P800 + P4 Northwood which is same as mine):

HDD was NOT running in 32 bit Transfer Mode (160gb Maxtor),
CPU+RAM wasn't in Turbo mode to gain safe extra boost.
RAM was running in SPD value mode
and so on.

Well, I changed the HDD to run in 32 bit Transfer Mode and set the CPU+RAM to run on turbo mode and didn't touch the RAM setting as I wasn't sure what kind of RAM was in the system.

Well, once I rebooted the system, it gave me the 'missing NTDR.whatever' error message. I remembered seeing that error message whenever my HDD went dead.
I was screwed or that's what I thought.
This guy hasn't backed up his data for a long time and there are tons of his works that just can't be replaced with anything else.
And of course, as I'm the one who f!@#ed up, I can't just say that he should've backed up his data.

Damn.....I was sitting there sweating and hoping that this is different than my past experiences.
I changed everything back to what it used to be and it booted up fine.
After that, I didn't even want to change anything as I just got sick of it.

Well, I'm now wondering what'd be the possible cause.
I'm thinking it must be the HDD being in 16bit mode when it was partitioned and formatted. Or am I right?
 
This is why you never work on someone's computer until you have a backup, or are sure that they have a backup.
 
Too bad you didn't fvck his system up for not minding your own business and thinking you know everything.
 
Never start "optimizing" a computer without having backups.

Never do anything at all to someone eles's computer without having backups.

You got lucky, learn from your mistake.
 
Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Ah...all these judges here as usual.

Anyway, does anyone know what the cause might have been?
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Yes. You fvcking w/ somebody's property w/o their supervision and permission.

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Originally posted by: Baked
Too bad you didn't fvck his system up for not minding your own business and thinking you know everything.
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Ain't it tough going through puberty?
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Pretty sure I'm old enough to be your father, boy.
 
Deadtrees, you remind me of...well, me when I was in school. I used to tweak my teachers' PC when they weren't looking. I actually god rid of a bunch of spyware on one but the teacher didn't react the way I though he would. @ First I didn't tell him but he seemed kinda pissed off about something going wrong with his PC. Turns out that all the porn and casino links weren't spyware... He wanted that shiz... so When I let him know what I thought to have been a service, he got pissed and said I f'ed up his PC.

When he realized that he was scolding me in public for deleting porn from his PC, he just said forget about it. Everyone makes mistakes!

lol

Lesson today is NEVER help anyone with their PCs. EVER. If something goes wrong they will nag you forever. You'll be their personal PC repair man...

ugh.
 
That's some good shiz man. But what are you doing trying to fix a school computer? You should be a good student and mess with it. Install a wireless USB mouse and play with their pointer during class. (Yes, I've seen it work before)

Anyway, I too have come close to fvcking up a system while trying to 'optimize' it. From then on I always got a FULL HD IMAGE before I changed ANYTHING. I learned. And I'm sure you learned too.
 
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