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offroadjosh:
few min after 12am my desktop totally crashed(blue screen) won't boot=( so now ive lost my most recent data of vws and lots of pics since my last back up=( gunna have to start over... again:( grrrrr



Josh

mackbig:
This does not sound like the behaviour of the april 1st "virus".   If you kill / blue screen of death your target, your worm dies with it rather than propogating and taking over the world (as reported by media).

Andrew

tomcj2:

--- Quote from: offroadjosh on April 01, 2009, 02:58:13 AM ---few min after 12am my desktop totally crashed(blue screen) won't boot=( so now ive lost my most recent data of vws and lots of pics since my last back up=( gunna have to start over... again:( grrrrr



Josh

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Too bad your machine is toast, but still worked long enough so you could post about its demise.

Anthony:
Have to agree with Andrew. Does not sound like a virus. More like a hardware failure. Like maybe a memory simm? What does an attempted reboot get you?

SLOweather:
If indeed your computer blue-screened, and this isn't an April Fool's prank at the forum's expense, then all is not lost.

It's very likely that your data and pics are intact on the drive. Simply install it in a second bootable machine as a second drive, and you should be able to copy the files off of it.

And, maybe it's time for a new computer. New ones from Dell are fairly inexpensive these days, and can still be had with XP installed.

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