OMG! Is it me or do computers always crash at the worst time?

GasX

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My fiance just lost 3 hours of work when the PC spontaneously rebooted... :|

It rebboted fine and then the PC rebooted again. During the reboot, a corrupt ntfs.sys error came up. Is this something that is basically random that I can fix easily or is there something larger afoot?
 

Nocturnal

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I think she's hit with that new worm floating around. Check out the sticky in offtopic.
 

GasX

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well, it wasn't an RPC error, but I will follow the instructions.

grrrr.... I spent an hour helping my brother fix the RPC thing earlier today already! :|
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: notfred
ctrl+s isn't that hard to press once every, oh, 3 hours or so.
tell her that...

Auto-recovery is now turned on at least...

 

HonkeyDonk

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: notfred
ctrl+s isn't that hard to press once every, oh, 3 hours or so.
tell her that...

Auto-recovery is now turned on at least...

live and learn my friend.

we've all had that happen to us at least once in our lives...hopefully not more than once ;)
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: PipBoy
if it was Word or Excel you might have a background save that it did on its own...
apparently that's a setting that wasn't turned on...