As much as I love a good Windows bashing session, an operating system has no effect on the physical integrity of your hard drive. That my friend was just a coincidence. Im sure you can find plenty of valid arguments against Windows that you dont need to go making stuff up.
I never said that SP3 literally killed the physical drive. I installed SP3, and the next day the hard drive was unreadable. The tech people could not find any file format on it – instead, there was just an unintelligible mess of data. The tech people were unable to restore it. All they could do was wipe the drive. The only thing I can assume is that SP3 somehow messed with the hard drive.
I like Windows. I didn’t like losing games, music and other files, but I will stick with XP.
I guess your phrasing about the hard drive needing to be “replaced” was the reason why i understood it the way i did. A better term would have been reformat/reimage. But i, like yourself, use windows even though it does have its ample shortcomings.
In the end, it was replaced as it was under warranty and the tech guys didn’t know why it failed. They threw it in a spare box and just gave me what I hope was a new one.
More misunderstanding and lack of clarity on my part. They threw it (broken drive) in a spare box (box of spare drives), and gave me what I hope was a new one (new, non-broken drive).
HAHAHAHA!
well played!
I’m assuming they mean XP?
I’m still running XP SP2… does SP3 suck or something?
I’ll say it does. I installed it on my laptop. Next day, the harddrive died and had to be replaced.
This pic fails at humor
@... rebelyell2006
As much as I love a good Windows bashing session, an operating system has no effect on the physical integrity of your hard drive. That my friend was just a coincidence. Im sure you can find plenty of valid arguments against Windows that you dont need to go making stuff up.
@Proctojew,
I never said that SP3 literally killed the physical drive. I installed SP3, and the next day the hard drive was unreadable. The tech people could not find any file format on it – instead, there was just an unintelligible mess of data. The tech people were unable to restore it. All they could do was wipe the drive. The only thing I can assume is that SP3 somehow messed with the hard drive.
I like Windows. I didn’t like losing games, music and other files, but I will stick with XP.
@... rebelyell2006
I guess your phrasing about the hard drive needing to be “replaced” was the reason why i understood it the way i did. A better term would have been reformat/reimage. But i, like yourself, use windows even though it does have its ample shortcomings.
MY GOD! A misunderstanding being worked out in a mature and reasonable manner on the internets!? Blasphemy!
@rebelyell2006-They stole all your homemade porn and just told you that so you would not question them.
@...Sarcastastic: BY JOVES, YOU’RE RIGHT!
@Proctojew,
In the end, it was replaced as it was under warranty and the tech guys didn’t know why it failed. They threw it in a spare box and just gave me what I hope was a new one.
@...rebelyell2006: You mean a spare one?
@...Recondomoe: I was about be like “Why” but then I was like “ohhhh”
@RSIxidor,
More misunderstanding and lack of clarity on my part. They threw it (broken drive) in a spare box (box of spare drives), and gave me what I hope was a new one (new, non-broken drive).
I didn’t know SP3 was just the Macintosh Upgrade tool without a chequebook.