Yaco

Sunday, October 09, 2005

9 October

oh god. i managed to do what no spyware or virus has managed to do before.

i destroyed my com.

ok, so i didn't exactly destroy it or i wouldn't be blogging now but i came close to it anyway.

i woke up this morning and decided to surf the net like usual. then dunno which stupid website decided to load spyware into my com. no big deal, i dealt with it like how i always did. go and search for all the files created or modified today. usually that solved all the problems since i look at the time of all the files to the time my com got infected and deleted accordingly but i got too lazy today and decided to just delete everything.

bad move.

my com crashed and then when i rebooted, it told it that a file, system.ini was missing and i was to use the emergency recovery disc.

what the hell was a .ini file which containings windows configaration doing in the files created and modified today you ask? i have no idea. it was deleted anyway.

at this point in time, i started to panic.

*me running about like a ganchiong spider and showing a face filled with terror

omg. is my com going to be gone? no!!! i can't survive without my com!!! i did what i was told and rebooted with the recovery disc

it tells me that my com will be restored to the factory setting and everything will be gone.

all self control went out of the window and i begin to punch the wall like crazy. ok, to be exact, i punch the wall once out of fustration.

i tried everything i know to get the com to work without restoring it to the factory setting but to no avail. then i finally pluck up the courage and pressed the button to the lost of all my memories of the past 5 years.

as i watch my com slowly being erased and restored to the factory setting, the word ouch was echoing in my mind.

maybe it was because my hand was still trobbing from the punch.

when the com finally managed to work, i was shock to see what was gone.

namely: all the compos and work i have done for the past 3 or 4 years
3++ gig of songs
all the photos i have ever had
all the games i played
ms office
and of course, every other thing that was on my com

you could imagine how i was at that time. lost. dejected. on the point of going crazy. my main source of connection with the rest of the world was gone!

however, i decided that mopping around was of no use and decided to pick myself up.

i set about the task of restoring my com

first, i contacted those who have the resouces to help me and are usually free enough to do it. kobe,yj and wq. they agreed to help me by sending me some of the stuff. wq and kobe are gonna burn a disc of songs and maybe pics for me. hopefully they don't have the same taste and burn different stuff

then i went on a crazy restoring spree. changing back settings that i haven't touch for years was no easy task, given my poor memory. got back the looks of the windows and most of my favourite list first. the dled some stuff that will help in the restoring process. namely p2p programs. thus i began the tedious process of dling, installing and restarting my com. still dun get why they gotta make the programs such that you gotta restart your com. can't they spare a though for ppl like me who gotta get everything back?

managed to get most of the photos back but some like those sec 2 and 3 de are gone le. of course, all my work are gone since no one but me have them. songs are coming in on mon. ms office too. games, particularly the save files are the worse, seeing that so much time were spent on them. should have backed the impt stuff up. but i am unable to do so seeing i have no disc burner and putting them on floppy would be totally crazy.

thus, i have mostly managed to get my com back in shape. it now boost of the shortest programs list i have ever seen and loads faster then i remember but i will soon fix that.

you only appreciate the things you have lost.

sorry for the blog-about-everyone project being so slow but i am kinda finding it hard given how long it takes but i promise i will complete it latest on the 18th at 12 mn! along with a true-to-myself account of how i feel about like in the school and in our great class! hopefully i will managed to make it somewhat touching...

Last Barking On|1:27 AM|