I had the Beta and it ruined ever usb device I have. This pc that I'm writing on right now has corrupted all my pro duo's and my external HDD. All my movies that I made, all the family photo's of the last DECADE! GONE! Thanks Microsux, thanks alot
That's why it is a beta...and before you call me a Microsoft fanboy, I'll have you know that I despise EVERYTHING Microsoft makes. Zune = Shit Windows = Shit XBOX 360 = Shit
When i installed a Microsoft product, my dog ended up needing surgery to repair his hip, and my grandmother died. Ill never install a Microsoft product again.
But for some reason, your story of a software program corrupting a hardware device like your pro duo CPU and inexplicably destroying your USB devices (no doubt SP3 caused them to actually explode into pieces) actually makes me laugh, and brings me joy. I hope your memory is good, so you can describe those videos and pictures to your kids.
@Ruben I think it is safe to assume he was talking about Sony's Memory Stick Pro Duos, and not the Intel Core 2 Duo line of CPUs. Which you somehow got mixed up with Pro Duo.
"All my movies that I made, all the family photo's of the last DECADE! GONE! "
And that boys and girls is the reason we BACKUP!!!
All my important data (work files, school work, photos) are backed up in 3 different places (their original place on my computer, an extrenal HD i have connected to my computer, and an external HD I have that i only hook up to my computer one a week and thats to copy any new files over to it.) Backin up everything is stupid, but important things...very important!
Somehow I find it very hard to believe. I have my fair share of USB peripherals - printers, memory sticks, external HDD, digital camera - and I must have installed some 5 or 6 different builds of Vista beta. Not a single one corrupted ANY of my files. The first were relatively unstable and laggy, but the last couple were really usable. So much so that I ran RC1 until the beta activation expired and I had to go back to XP. And I'm not talking monster-super-gaming-rig here: I had a plain Pentium4 3Ghz, 1Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon X300, which were enough to run Vista with Aero.
Did you have all those decades' worth of films on USB sticks? Did you perchance yank them from the computer when they were being used? I don't want to say you're making it up but really - you'd have to be a very unlucky guy to have that happen.
By the way - always back up important files on non-rewritable media... And stash them away so they don't get broken/scratched/whatever.
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I had the Beta and it ruined ever usb device I have. This pc that I'm writing on right now has corrupted all my pro duo's and my external HDD. All my movies that I made, all the family photo's of the last DECADE! GONE! Thanks Microsux, thanks alot
Lemme breakdown your problem for you.
Starts with "B" ends with "eta"
Now do you understand?
That's why it is a beta...and before you call me a Microsoft fanboy, I'll have you know that I despise EVERYTHING Microsoft makes.
Zune = Shit
Windows = Shit
XBOX 360 = Shit
I hear you.
When i installed a Microsoft product, my dog ended up needing surgery to repair his hip, and my grandmother died. Ill never install a Microsoft product again.
But for some reason, your story of a software program corrupting a hardware device like your pro duo CPU and inexplicably destroying your USB devices (no doubt SP3 caused them to actually explode into pieces) actually makes me laugh, and brings me joy. I hope your memory is good, so you can describe those videos and pictures to your kids.
"...all the family photo's of the last DECADE! GONE!"
lol
oh god...
@Ruben
I think it is safe to assume he was talking about Sony's Memory Stick Pro Duos, and not the Intel Core 2 Duo line of CPUs. Which you somehow got mixed up with Pro Duo.
Just saying...
lol @ people who don't backup their stuff before performing major system modifications.
Pwnt.
"All my movies that I made, all the family photo's of the last DECADE! GONE! "
And that boys and girls is the reason we BACKUP!!!
All my important data (work files, school work, photos) are backed up in 3 different places (their original place on my computer, an extrenal HD i have connected to my computer, and an external HD I have that i only hook up to my computer one a week and thats to copy any new files over to it.) Backin up everything is stupid, but important things...very important!
@SUPERGOOMAN
Somehow I find it very hard to believe. I have my fair share of USB peripherals - printers, memory sticks, external HDD, digital camera - and I must have installed some 5 or 6 different builds of Vista beta. Not a single one corrupted ANY of my files. The first were relatively unstable and laggy, but the last couple were really usable. So much so that I ran RC1 until the beta activation expired and I had to go back to XP. And I'm not talking monster-super-gaming-rig here: I had a plain Pentium4 3Ghz, 1Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon X300, which were enough to run Vista with Aero.
Did you have all those decades' worth of films on USB sticks? Did you perchance yank them from the computer when they were being used? I don't want to say you're making it up but really - you'd have to be a very unlucky guy to have that happen.
By the way - always back up important files on non-rewritable media... And stash them away so they don't get broken/scratched/whatever.