Journal #7495

Posted 12 years ago2011-12-04 15:31:33 UTC
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I fucking hate Windows.

A few days ago XP started to cock up , I wasn't able to change any settings due to the control panel giving me rundll errors. Because my computer is an HP Media Centre , it has a seperate partition which has a factory copy of Windows installed and all the drivers , so all I needed to do was pop in a disc which would copy all the factory files onto my hard drive.
After the ridiculously long 5 hour recovery , The computer failed to even boot up. Bastard.
I have a copy of Windows 7 lying around which I was thinking of upgrading to soon , so now was the perfect oppurtunity. Choosing the "non destructive" installation because I've been formatted before and it's been FUCKING ANNOYING.
So , I turn on the newly installed computer , everything seems fin - WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL MY PROGRAMS?

Windows decided that the program files folder was of no significance and deleted the whole thing. There goes Steam , Photoshop , reason , All my maps , my custom textures...

Bastard.

7 Comments

Commented 12 years ago2011-12-04 15:35:04 UTC Comment #50765
couple of things:

1. You can't install a new OS without losing all your programs. A non-destructive OS install will keep your files, not programs. The registry would get all fucked up if the programs were kept.

2. Why, why oh why oh why, WHY were your maps and custom textures in your PROGRAM FILES folder? God damn.
Commented 12 years ago2011-12-04 15:57:20 UTC Comment #50767
Because i'm amazing like that.

Yeah I just realized that Windows decides to put any files from previous installations into a windows.old folder. All hope is not lost , however my old documents and settings is being a massive P.I.T.A. Every single file I have to add security permissions and that takes a good 30 seconds to do.
Commented 12 years ago2011-12-04 16:12:53 UTC Comment #50769
You should be able to change permissions for all files and subfolders of a folder using the command-line tool "icacls.exe" which comes with Windows. Run it "as administrator". If you're running it through "cmd.exe", run cmd.exe "as administrator".
Commented 12 years ago2011-12-04 22:54:56 UTC Comment #50768
That is good to know potatis. i had a similar problem with file permissions and instead i downloaded some script which allows me to right click and "take ownership of", but it still took FOREVER to change everything.
Commented 12 years ago2011-12-04 23:26:46 UTC Comment #50771
Just go to folder windows.old
Commented 12 years ago2011-12-05 10:32:17 UTC Comment #50770
This sounds painfully familiar.
Commented 12 years ago2011-12-06 00:05:06 UTC Comment #50766
feel your pain :(
the win7 migration HAD to come.
You'll like it.

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