replacing directory with "last good" on Windows XP non-boot data harddisk

jim · May 10, 2012

On Thu, 10 May 2012 08:54:04 -0400, in

I know a lot of people who
worked with computers extensively back in the 80's and even earlier....
some are just about lost in Windows. So, my use of the word involves
experience with Windows, not with punch cards or Cobol or Fortran.

Let me share something that i found to be humorous -- back in 93 or 94 I
browsed through many of the Windows 3.1 OS installation files. Several
had readable programmer's comments in the compiled code. One comment i
found was "now lets clear some memory so that this pig can run".

BTW, apparently SeaTools For Windows did a jam up job last night -- the in
depth SMART report on the drive -- not by Seagate -- is at
http://www.hddstatus.com/hdrepshowreport.php?ReportCode=6054074&ReportVerification=2740FB9B

That same disk was previously reporting, via this analysis service, a 0
percent fitness rating and now, the fitness rating is 97%.
I used the "Short, Repair all" diagnostic/repair which ran for about 40
minutes. I hope it "sticks".

Also, .net framework 4 seems much better behaved than 3.5 SP2.
Services.msc still shows NGEN as disabled, same as i set it for 3.5.

jim

glee · May 10, 2012

BillW50 said:
I disagree, BlueScreenView will show you nearly the exact same screen
at any time you want it too. Now you can see it as many times as you
want too. And use your favorite screen capture utility or whatever to
take a far better screen shot than a digital camera can do.

Sure it will, that's one of its nice View options.... but I have seen a
few BSOD's that did not produce a dump file that was saved on the
computer, due to the nature and severity of the crash. So turning off
automatic restart and taking a digital photo is still the most foolproof
method, before restarting and trying these utilities.

BillW50 · May 10, 2012

glee said:
Sure it will, that's one of its nice View options.... but I have seen
a few BSOD's that did not produce a dump file that was saved on the
computer, due to the nature and severity of the crash. So turning off
automatic restart and taking a digital photo is still the most
foolproof method, before restarting and trying these utilities.

Good point Glen.