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whew, that was close

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I was swaping drives left and right and I went to format my D:\ partition and it took me up until 14% until I realized, thats not my partition--that is my music drive!!! :eek: I freaked and restarted real quick. I was scared I lost my 13gig of music, so I installed Win98SE real quick (thats how I'm talkin' now) to see if my music was accesable (I could see all the songs in DOS) so I clicked on a couple of 'em.....




....and they worked fine :D WTF!!! hahhahaa I own you format.exe
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lol...lucky you.

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WTF!!! hahhahaa I own you format.exe


LOL no you just got lucky. :D
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Naw, it was all skill baby :D
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I'd say the format gods were on your side.......... this time. Next time I predict the slightest little hicup in your computer will cause it to be turned into an expensive toater. :D
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You may want to run a scandisk on that drive. You probably got lucky and it hadn't yet wiped the volume table of contents, but there may be some trashed files or bad cluster links.
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Yep, I did that and it all checked out fine. What I'm wondering is what in the hell was it doing then? :) I am damn lucky though... ...I about threw my PC out the window when I realized I was formatting the wrong drive :eek:
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"I about threw my PC out the window when I realized I was formatting the wrong drive"

if you ever think of doing that again, just make sure you "THROW" it my way :)
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then what got formated

dead space?

me
guess i need a new one...
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Post by Hipnotic_Tranz »

You tell me :) I ran scandisk right after that incident and nothin' came up bad. I've been listening to my MP3's for about 3-4 days now and have not ran into one that is messed up :) I think what happened was format.exe realized the mistake I made so it was just kidding when it asked 'are you sure you want to format y/n?' ;)
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format with a sence of houmor (sp)

me
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