Topic: Microsoft Sucks

[Snowthrower]

Today I decided to install Service Pack 2 thinking "most of the bugs must be out by now, I mean its been 4 months. Well I was completely wrong, Service Pack 2 completely annihilated my system. I cant boot into Windows (system cant load explorer.exe ). Service Pack 2 completely trashed ALL my System Restores that I had so I cant use Safe Mode to restore my system. Now, 10:45pm here, I have to print a report out due tomorrow and I cant since Slax (the live cd i'm using) doesnt have permission to access Disc1Part2 of my hard drive due to this BS.

Tomorrow, most likely, I will have to miss school because I'm going to be on the phone for hours with Microsofts crappy tech support. I still havent tried to restore Windows to SP1 by reinstalling XP because I know it is going to say "The version of Windows you wish to install is currently a lower version than what is installed."

Now I'm most likely going to have to wipe my hard drive (60+ gb of IMPORTANT data) as well as re-install everything I had on there. I have no way to back up any of my data since I cant access Nero on Linux nor can I install anything since I am using a Live Linux CD. I cant install any partitions either which sucks even more.

[ssj4gogita4]

I still havent tried to restore Windows to SP1 by reinstalling XP because I know it is going to say "The version of Windows you wish to install is currently a lower version than what is installed."

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You dont know till you try...

[RandomDude18]

I still havent tried to restore Windows to SP1 by reinstalling XP because I know it is going to say "The version of Windows you wish to install is currently a lower version than what is installed."

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You dont know till you try...

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It's possible to restore SP1 without re-installing Windows before, I've done it. Anyways did you use windows updates to install SP2?

[ssj4gogita4]

I've done it too.

I have SP2 and it hasnt done anything yet. I updated it about a few weeks ago

[Snowthrower]

It took me forever to isolate the problem but I got it. Turns out that Service Pack 2 wasnt causing the problems. It turns out when I uninstalled McAfee Anti-Virus awhile back, the uninstallation corrupted and never removed the start up DLL's or the McSheild from the services. Windows couldnt find the service so it froze the computer.

[ssj4gogita4]

I hate McAfee...Norton or Avast is a whole lot better

[AppleNick]

Now I'm most likely going to have to wipe my hard drive (60+ gb of IMPORTANT data) as well as re-install everything I had on there. I have no way to back up any of my data since I cant access Nero on Linux nor can I install anything since I am using a Live Linux CD. I cant install any partitions either which sucks even more.

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You can use k3b on Linux, or download WINE and Nero, then use WINE to run Nero. Simple.

[Snowthrower]

I hate McAfee...Norton or Avast is a whole lot better

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I agree, I only use Symantec, Avast! or AVG now.

[RandomDude18]

Now I'm most likely going to have to wipe my hard drive (60+ gb of IMPORTANT data) as well as re-install everything I had on there. I have no way to back up any of my data since I cant access Nero on Linux nor can I install anything since I am using a Live Linux CD. I cant install any partitions either which sucks even more.

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You can use k3b on Linux, or download WINE and Nero, then use WINE to run Nero. Simple.

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You can't burn on a live cd unless you have 2 cd drives.