Oh for the love of tea and butterbiscuits! WHY DOES MY COMPUTER HATE ME SO?! · 9:07am Sep 4th, 2012
OK. bit of a story, but first a question. *plugs ear and pulls out bullhorn* Does anyone know how to get fimfiction running properly on Ubuntu?
Now the story. A while back my computer crapped out because of a virus, I posted about it so a few of you should know. Anyway, what you don't know is that after I got rid of the damn thing it had left a little surprise behind. In short, it reformatted part of my hard drive. If you don't know what that means I will tell you, it is a VERY bad thing. and more or less wiped my hard drive. do you know what I first saw the first time I tried to turn on my computer after that?
No bootable device detected.
What's that you say? reinstall windows you say? Unfortunately for me, I never had a physical copy of windows, all I had was the upgrade disk for windows 7 and guess what? The upgrade disk doesn't work without windows installed. BRILLIANT!
so for a while I used my crappy laptop that I had used when the virus struck, trying to figure out what to do. and I realized that what I needed was to get a working OS on my computer, one live disk later and my computer is up and running again. unfortunately I can't run any of my games and certain apps don't run properly. Thanks Ubuntu.
If anyone knows how to get the scripts on the site working I would really appreciate it. if not I'm going to switch back to my crappy laptop. the main problem is that I cant actually SAVE any of my work.
Suggestions?
Well, I don't know anything about Linux other than its easy as hell to screw up if you don't know anything about programming. You can always torrent Windows 7. I've done it twice on 64 bit. As far as OSs go, I don't know what else to really tell you. But I can recommend some security: Avast Antivirus or Microsoft Security Essentials (W7) and Malwarebytes. McAfee sucks balls, AVG is decent, Norton is decent but intrusive as hell. Personally, I run Avast and Malwarebytes and I've never gotten a virus. Best of luck.
What browser are you using, and what add-ons are present? Possibly NoScript is preventing scripts from running (if you're using that)?
Not sure what the site is based off, but any of the basics could be a cause: Flash Player, Shockwave, Java.
Tried a different browser?
Oh, and virusses? NoScript, a decent virusscanner, and concious use of the internet (email, browsing, whatever) and sites on there usually keep you pretty much safe.
I don't have any experience with Ubuntu, but I have some more advice about antiviruses
Microsoft Security Essentials has infrequent updates compared to Norton and Avast, but it's decent. But you know what other antivirus is great and free? Comodo Internet Security.
Malwarebytes sucks for realtime protection, but has the best removal tool of any antivirus program, so definitely get that.
Either way, best of luck fixing you're computer issues.
I would recommend looking into how to use mounted drives, so you can save things to a 1 GiB flash or something, and work your way up from there while trying to recocer the old partitions. Most unix flavors are pretty good about letting you choose where to save the changes. Best hope, of course, is to try booting from a small distro on a flash drive with a lot of extra space, so you can have a fully interactive OS that doesn't try to mess with the borked hard drive partitions.
Searching on google for info on how to make a bootable flash drive would probably be the best place to start, but try UNetbootin. It has lots of help and FAQs for people just getting started, and all it really requires is an internet connection. Good luck.
Also also: it has lots of options for recovery only OS, designed to have only what you need to recover broken partitions, etc.
You could always try reinstalling windows xp then reupgrading to 7, i mean, ask your friends if they have an extra disc or something. I myself have at least 4 different copies of windows xp service pack 2. And back then, companies weren't always checking to make sure that multiple comps weren't installed using the same keycode.
Send a complaint to Microsoft? (Hahhahahahahahhahahahahaha)
Best of luck man, ponies are counting on you.
Carry On
Why? Did you try to use a PenDrive for that? You can save your files on it even if you're working on a Live distribution. If it does work for you, maybe consider simply wiping everything and installing Ubuntu on the HDD?
About the Windows stuff: I hope it's not a stupid question, but did you try the tricks on this site?