WILL
14-04-2006, 05:44 PM
It hapened yesterday a couple of hours after getting home from work. I got home and opened up my laptop and started using her has per usual. Worked a bit on my latest projects, did a litle surfing, downloading eps of my fav shows... then suddenly it freezes up... ok... nothing new, it does this all the time. It's on the fritz afterall... start it back up... the bugger deleted all my cookies in FireFox. :x ...boy was I in for a supprise....
It wasn't too long just fiddling with it and using it some more that it crashed once again.... that was it... last time... started back up got a text mode screen telling me that 'WINDOWS\System32\ntoskrnl.exe' was missing... I was like crap! Alright looks like I have to reinstall my Windows system files hope I don't lose my data in the process.
A couple of tries with the Windows CD later and 'grrrrr.... Click! grrrrrrrrra.--click!' .. the bloody harddrive went all screwy... Right there I knew... It was done. The fat lady sang. My laptop was no more.
I just lost a months worth of work, Night Stalker 2 --port to Lazarus, Build 6 & 7(which I was so proud of), Scorch2D ported to JEI-SDL in azarus(to be featured in parts in my upcoming tutorial on how to make an atillary game) and all my nice personal 'toolbox' units I made up to help make any new project easy to put together, things such as a graphics unit, very nice input unit, font unit that uses the graphics unit.... all gone. :(
Oh sure I backed up alright... before I went to sea... but you all know when that was... too long ago. I didn't lose Cyber-Crisis thank that! :shock: My modded version of JEDI-SDL is safe and my earlier versions of Scorch2D and Night Stalker 2 under Delphi using DelphiX are still intact... but i'll be like starting them all over since I had to do a whole wack of work to get them changed over. I even made them more modular(more Object Oriented, NS2 is an old, old project....)
So there is my sad sad story... sorry to those that were hoping to see Build 7 of NS2... it might take a while before it's at the point that I had it... I downloaded the copy that I uploaded to PGD... It'll help me a bit to start the project back up towards what I had... Would have liked it if I had posted the AI routeens I used though... a ton of juicy copde there.... *sigh*
Well you guys have all heard this before. One more harddrive gone up to HDD Heaven. :roll:
It wasn't too long just fiddling with it and using it some more that it crashed once again.... that was it... last time... started back up got a text mode screen telling me that 'WINDOWS\System32\ntoskrnl.exe' was missing... I was like crap! Alright looks like I have to reinstall my Windows system files hope I don't lose my data in the process.
A couple of tries with the Windows CD later and 'grrrrr.... Click! grrrrrrrrra.--click!' .. the bloody harddrive went all screwy... Right there I knew... It was done. The fat lady sang. My laptop was no more.
I just lost a months worth of work, Night Stalker 2 --port to Lazarus, Build 6 & 7(which I was so proud of), Scorch2D ported to JEI-SDL in azarus(to be featured in parts in my upcoming tutorial on how to make an atillary game) and all my nice personal 'toolbox' units I made up to help make any new project easy to put together, things such as a graphics unit, very nice input unit, font unit that uses the graphics unit.... all gone. :(
Oh sure I backed up alright... before I went to sea... but you all know when that was... too long ago. I didn't lose Cyber-Crisis thank that! :shock: My modded version of JEDI-SDL is safe and my earlier versions of Scorch2D and Night Stalker 2 under Delphi using DelphiX are still intact... but i'll be like starting them all over since I had to do a whole wack of work to get them changed over. I even made them more modular(more Object Oriented, NS2 is an old, old project....)
So there is my sad sad story... sorry to those that were hoping to see Build 7 of NS2... it might take a while before it's at the point that I had it... I downloaded the copy that I uploaded to PGD... It'll help me a bit to start the project back up towards what I had... Would have liked it if I had posted the AI routeens I used though... a ton of juicy copde there.... *sigh*
Well you guys have all heard this before. One more harddrive gone up to HDD Heaven. :roll: