Thursday 26 May 2011

Well, that's unfortunate.

Hm. Apparently attempting to expand a partition that contains your OS can cause that partition to become corrupt. Or at least, that's what happened to me.

My face when I had to do a complete reinstall,
losing all my data.

But hey, what can you do. It's my own damn fault. At any rate, I'm currently redownloading all my games and considering a few new ones to try. The sad part is, I've lost all my saves - ME2, Bioshock 2, Terraria, just to name a few.

Shit sucks. Anyway, I'll make a post in a little while with my decision on a game, and possibly some in-game screenshots of me actually playing!



P.S.   BigMike of Today I Quit Smoking raised a valid question that I should probably address. It's my own fault because when I did the partition a while ago, I made it JUST big enough for the system folders to go in. This wouldn't have caused a problem, except that I was attempting to install a game whose self-extractor was creating a temporary folder there without a way to change it. I figured it would be simple to go in and just expand the allocated space, and...well, you know the rest. :)

9 comments:

  1. I know it is a sore subject but why would you try and expand a OS partition in the first place?

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  2. And this is why I play games like League of Legends, server side saves make me feel safer.

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  3. Aww. I feel you. Happened to me once too. :/

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  4. Wow... did you back up any of it?

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  5. i use dropbox... i've never had problems with my reinstalls.

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  6. ME2 great game, shame you lost your game save file

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  7. That happened to me too, lost my Windows disk too... Now I'm running Ubuntu.

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  8. Oh man that is just brutal. But learning is fun hey? xD

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  9. You should have change the temp location in the environment variables.

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