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Windows Update Corrupted my Windows 7 Install

 
khnum
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03/22/2012 03:40 AM
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I updated windows explorer and my computer went into a death spiral just spent $110.00 to de-corrupt my harddrive and debug.Now use Mozilla firefox which is free download.
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03/22/2012 03:40 AM
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I updated windows explorer and my computer went into a death spiral just spent $110.00 to de-corrupt my harddrive and debug.Now use Mozilla firefox which is free download.
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03/22/2012 03:44 AM
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I updated windows explorer and my computer went into a death spiral just spent $110.00 to de-corrupt my harddrive and debug.Now use Mozilla firefox which is free download.
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Isn't it about time to sue those money-grabbing bastards?
Buck Johnson

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11/26/2012 10:19 PM

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Thanks Microsoft. I already have a shit ton of work backlogged and still getting more, and now I will have to spend the next 3-4 days reinstalling Windows and numerous applications.

All because I ran your shit Windows Update and even after letting it sit there for 2 days on "Configuring Windows updates" it never completed.
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Doubtful it was a Windows O/S software issue....smells more of hardware failure.
 Quoting: Burt Gummer


I've read elsewhere of this happening this week to others.
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You have a link? 1dunno1
 Quoting: Burt Gummer


I'm late to the party but I had hardware issues with the Seagates and now with my new drives I thought I was okay. Until I started seeing problems after taking in updates this month of November. I saw where one update changed my time on the task bar to another timezone. And another time where it out of the blue changed my power settings and a few more things. And the one hit came where (I have a Dell desktop and they told me that the sleep function activiated in the desktop is a known bug where the power to bring up the devices seem to bring them up and then randomly after 10 minutes it will blue screen and reboot and things are okay, so I keep it on for days and then turn it off or restart when it asks for shutdown for an update) I had my computer on for 4 days and it must have updated at that time and I didn't get around to restarting the computer.

I restarted and I started having issues with the whole system freezing up and not wanting to boot and not being able to find the drive. At first I thought it was the harddrive and I did tests on it with Dell and the drives diagnostic software from the company and it was in good shape. Even using check disk and windows 7 repair didn't work but for only a little while before blue screening and rebooting and not getting back to windows. The OS was corrupted and the only thing I could figure out was that the update from microsoft caused it.

I did a complete reinstall (it was even having trouble with that until I unplugged all my external HD's and internal second drive for it to find it, I tell you whatever MS did was at the edge of the BIOS software and beginning of the windows area) and that made it whole again. I talked to Dell software support who helped me with the re-install and they said that there has been alot of people calling about corrupt OS's on their Dells lately. He said one problem may be the update folder on your computer is getting full and then it's having trouble but I have a drive that is over 1.3 TB of freespace it shouldn't have to worry about space.

The manager or boss of the support guy to follow up on if he did a good job helping me told me that he's had his computer without MS update happening since 2007 and hasn't had any problems, it's preference with him.

This is my opinion but it makes sense, I think that Microsoft is putting lines of code or dirty updates into their system to destroy people who have windows 7 and then they go and buy Windows 8. I know nobody that likes Windows 8, nobody. If you don't believe microsoft would do that I have an example that happened with Norton anti virus. I switched from them (using up to much of my CPU, bloat ware) to Kaspersky and when I uninstalled Norton and installed Kaspersky it wouldn't work at all. Found out through Kaspersky that Norton even uninstalling it left a file in the same place that all the anti-viruses needed and so that made any other anti-virus system seem to crash and not work. So they sent me a program via email to use to remove it and it worked fine.

If Norton would do something like this, what would a monopoly like Microsoft do to hurry up the end life of your OS to another?
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Anonymous Coward
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11/26/2012 10:21 PM
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Thanks Microsoft. I already have a shit ton of work backlogged and still getting more, and now I will have to spend the next 3-4 days reinstalling Windows and numerous applications.

All because I ran your shit Windows Update and even after letting it sit there for 2 days on "Configuring Windows updates" it never completed.
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umm easy solution... Stop using windows.

sabayon
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11/26/2012 11:13 PM
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Ah, I just got a Win7 computer and updated it, and it works fine, nothing wrong. I also got a second harddrive to put in it, because with Seagate harddrive you get a program called DiscWizard, that will make a backup of your computer, either compressed or a complete sector by sector copy (I use Partitions and have different drive letters). After mounting the new harddisk with the new program on it (instead of the old one I was using when I upgraded my old computer with a Seagate drive and the old version of DiscWizard), I will make a sector to sector backup. The reason I partition a harddrive is because you shrink the one complete harddrive (which to me is way too large) and then with the empty space now made you can make other partitions with having different drive letters. You can store a backup there on one of the partitions (different Drive letter, like F:\, G:\,H:\, I:\ which will go all the way up to Z:\ if you like that many partitions) and restore your computer because the C:\ Primary Partition is the one that gets used the most because that is where the OS is located. (I turn off and on my computer and never leave it on, and turn off the Internet Connection also which is done by getting up Network clicking on Change Adaptors (or something like that) and getting to the Local Connection Page where your connection to the Internet usually is. There you make a shortcut to your desktop and when you want to be on the Internet, you "Enable" the Local Area Connection and then you can also after connecting get up the "Status" little page (like XP) and see how many bits are being downloaded and the time on the Internet. I right click everything to start a program. When you are done on the Internet and on the "Status" page of the Internet connection you can "Diable" it once again and break the connection. This ensures that when you are not on your computer nothing is getting in to your computer by hackers or anything like that.
I also have Norton's pre-installed, so after 60 days total time, it will end. I already downloaded Avast which worked well on my old computer and downloaded the free version. At least it works well enough for me and I never get crap on it. Use Firefox to browse, although I had downloaded Opera on my old computer but I did not really like it and I won't use google chrome either. To search I do not use Google, but Startpage so I am not tracked on what I will look up on the Internet, but that does not really concern me that much.

Then since the sector by sector backup will take about 67Gigabytes and take a long time, that is what will happen. I am hoping that if the computer fails I will hook up the second harddrive as the first drive with the sector by sector backup on that drive (which should be a complete image of the OS system) and boot with that, although the DiscWizard program also can make Bootable CD to start up a computer with also. But like I said I used the old DiscWizard program that actually is was made for XP which I used on my old computer also, but did not receive any error messages or that it would not Boot for Windows 7. I do not know, so the long time it takes to make a sector by sector backup will insure that there is another complete copy of the OS (which I did not receive a Windows CD with the computer anyway since they have changed that also from my old computer) and it should be nothing but changing the two data wires from the two harddrive (one to the other) and booting up the computer like nothing has happened. The other Partitions on the harddisk will still work (drive letter F:\, G:\, H:\ whatever) because it only the C:\ Primary Partiton that goes when a harddisk drive fails because it is used way more often the the other partitions or even a second harddrive in the computer.

I know that for a fact because it happened before with older OS systems before and doing it that way makes sure you have a computer to use and take less time to not install all the programs again. I store other programs or games on different partitions, and I never will use up all the space on a 1Tb harddisk or even the 500Gb harddisk I just bought today to have a second harddive in the computer and a complete copy of the OS system since they do not include a Windows CD anymore with any computer.

You "Manage" the computer (right click on "Computer) and set up the other partitions by "Shrink Volume" when you "Defrag" your computer and get the crude programs off left on by either the manufacturer and the place you bought the computer (like Best Buy crude program on it) which was left on since I bought a floor computer with Windows 7 on it instead of a brand new one with Windows 8 (retard OS) on it.

You find out your computer and make it work for you, not the other way around and you become a slave of the stupid computer even with Microsoft's OS on it.
Schizoid Renegade

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11/26/2012 11:16 PM
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Ive had to pull the plug on one of my main computer running newer version of windows for just buggyness and oddness , so its not just you .bump
Anonymous Coward
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11/26/2012 11:18 PM
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And the new hard-disk did not cost all that much anyway @$70 is all. They had bigger hard-drives also there, but I could not store that much on my old computer to even use a 500Gb drive so unless you buy a lot of software or download probably what you should not, then I see no reason that anything else will take all the space one has with a large hard-disk. (just to me anyway).





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