DougieFresh4U
September 9th, 2007, 01:02 AM
After having a power outage in my area yesterday, I was left with a broken system. Long story short: A black bar appeared in the middle of my screen. After many attempts (and threads) at fixing it, I had to either reinstall or wait it out for some guru to come along.
So, this afternoon I had an idea, I thought, let me reinstall but when partition part comes up I will resize and not overwrite all of my old system w/black bar across screen. So I resize partition in 1/2, new install on 2nd half, then it asked about import or some thing like that and I chose to import. After machine asking a few questions, it proceeded to install. After install and doing all updates and the tinkering every one does w/fresh installs, I some how got a screen up that asked for password and then my whole music collection appeared from borked system.
What I am trying to say is, I am so glad that all was not lost and the good feeling I got knowing that most of every thing that was in the install that got borked yesterday I can still get access to and move to my new install. I am so impressed with what can be done with Linux
And to think how many other borked systems I have reinstalled and lost every thing when I didn't need to. Thanks to Linux and the devs for all the great work they are doing. BTW, the borked system was Gutsy and the install today is Feisty
Just wanted to share this great experience that I encountered today:guitar:
So, this afternoon I had an idea, I thought, let me reinstall but when partition part comes up I will resize and not overwrite all of my old system w/black bar across screen. So I resize partition in 1/2, new install on 2nd half, then it asked about import or some thing like that and I chose to import. After machine asking a few questions, it proceeded to install. After install and doing all updates and the tinkering every one does w/fresh installs, I some how got a screen up that asked for password and then my whole music collection appeared from borked system.
What I am trying to say is, I am so glad that all was not lost and the good feeling I got knowing that most of every thing that was in the install that got borked yesterday I can still get access to and move to my new install. I am so impressed with what can be done with Linux
And to think how many other borked systems I have reinstalled and lost every thing when I didn't need to. Thanks to Linux and the devs for all the great work they are doing. BTW, the borked system was Gutsy and the install today is Feisty
Just wanted to share this great experience that I encountered today:guitar: