Yesterday was a bit of a disaster, my media pc which is running on a beamer in my home cinema had a few problems. Vista decided that is was not genuine, which could well be true.. In my haste to patch vista i made quite a large mistake and erased the spanned partition that held 55+ HD movies.
I moved the harddisks to another pc and tried to make windows re-recognize the spanned volumes to no avail. Rebuilding the master boot record and trying to boot repair the vista install on the spanned volume also failed.
In the end i had no alternative as to reformat the drives and start fresh. As the Americans say : it's not a failure it's a learning moment ! What did i learn from this disaster ?
- Make backups
- Never ever use spanned volumes again
- Make backups
- Maybe pay for vista, or at least find a better crack
- Make backups
- Maybe start paying for movies
- Make backups
I will try to redownload all the lost content, but i am sure some movies are beyond the 70 days retention that i have with my usenet provider.
So there you go, spend more $$ on backup systems or maybe spend the same amount of $$ on bluray movies that you can actually buy...
In the comming days i'll write some on media center setups and hardware and software choices for that.
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