HELP !!!!!

Shadow2002 · Post by **Shadow2002** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:35 am

Hey all! I'm sorry to introduce myself this way but I have a bit of a problem.

Basically the short story is this.... last night I saved my code and powered the PC off. Tonight I powered on the pc and loaded up PureBasic. Now all I have is this where my code was....

00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

well much more but I didnt want to annoy anyone with a few pages of nothing but 0's. Is there anyway that I can convert this back to the text file or am I up the creek without a paddle?

Thank you for any help you can give.

coma · Post by **coma** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:38 am

no problem, don't panic, try this :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014200 ... e&n=283155

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:42 am

LOL COMA!!!

Don't panic Shadow2002... However you should, this could be a hardware issue. I've had a bunch of this type of issues on some customers PCs... however, its not always a hardware problem though.

If it does happen again, I recommend you to install a fresh copy of another OS for example you could boot up knoppix via CD and try there if you lose any data from the harddrive (mount it and read / write data.. see if you can replicate the data-loss) if you could, thats a defective harddrive. Else, It could be anything.. including some lame worm (er actually almost every worm I know attacks dlls.. exes... etc, but who knows what you've got in there).

Alright enough shooting on the dark.. Last thing: "power off" ? sounds like you pull the plug from the wall

better turn off your pc via software!! (just kiddin, but hope you do so).

By the way, thats a nice little book though!

Shadow2002 · Post by **Shadow2002** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:19 am

Alright funny guys. Well the good news is thanks to good design on Freds part there was a backup of the file in the compiler directory. So I guess you could say god favors the foolish (me being foolish for not makeing backups) Anyway the time machine idea had crossed my mind but I couldnt get the math straight.

On a side note, I did power it down correctly, well I think, dont you just kick the box as hard as you can til it powers off? Hrm, if not I have been doing it wrong this whole time.

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:22 am

Shadow2002 wrote:On a side note, I did power it down correctly, well I think, dont you just kick the box as hard as you can til it powers off? Hrm, if not I have been doing it wrong this whole time.

Dear dear, that was the wrong method, it was already suggested it should be done software-matic. I usually run my infinite loop program that floods data to my harddisk until I get a black screen

Shadow2002 · Post by **Shadow2002** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:28 am

I bet the reason all this happened is the hard drive needs a good cleaning off. Now where did I put that garden hose.

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:29 am

Cracking up

Oh people.. what would happen if we were all inside a cafe: full of notebooks, coffee, high speed internet access and lots of girls (some would be paid, you know.. many girls would hate all that stuff in the same room!) - Let's not forget about beer, but that comes after development time for someones!.

Well I already have all that, apart from the place full of programmers and nerdies though.. (too bad, nah seriously, could be fun).

Post by **Dare2** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:52 pm

lol.