Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:10:44 -0700 From: <soralx@cydem.org> To: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Cc: GedankeZauberer@comcast.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD text based games - Dungeoncrawl - My test box Message-ID: <20091009021044.44f46591@soralx> In-Reply-To: <4ACE9098.3040602@comcast.net> References: <4ACC7CE0.8070801@comcast.net> <a534c7c30910070508nb6c80d9yd8e00cec7e9c59d0@mail.gmail.com> <d7a53080910071101w54ba778fj793c03f2012474e5@mail.gmail.com> <4ACE5B3B.2050902@daleco.biz> <4ACE9098.3040602@comcast.net>
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> Now, this thing turned out not to be a virus at all. Instead, it turned > into the ONLY ONLY ONLY .exe I've EVER come across that does PHYSICAL > damage to a machine.... I'm in no way kidding. > > I saw what I had done fast.... I had went to close the window and > accidentally double clicked on it instead and instantly hit for the > power switch to shut the machine off.... It was to late though. I saw a > DOS Prompt come up saying something or other, and when I turned the > machine back on, it wouldn't even boot. > > This machine ran Windows 95, had a lot of MP3s, and some movies and > pics. When that happened, I couldn't even get Windows 3.1 to install. > > A friend and I worked on it all the time, and I was shocked. I couldn't > do anything.... I managed to install PC-DOS on this thing, and then when > I tried to install Windows 3.1, it said the drive wasn't big enough! > > I the next day, went and bought my first paidfor computer, and used it > insted which I still have, but the fact that later in life when I > started using Linux, about a year later, I tried again to install Linux > on the drive that thing killed. > > Linux wouldn't install either, it said the drive was screwed up and > couldn't even fix it except for a small DOS partition which was like, a > few MBs. could it be that the program simply changed disk geometry in BIOS to something small, and you did not notice? [SorAlx] ridin' VN2000 Classic LT
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