Yup, I'm typing this from the Windows 7 Operating system. Why are you telling me this? You ask. Good question. Well what happened is this: I bought Windows 8 Pro, a few weeks ago, couldn't wait to install it and get it running. So that's exactly what I did. I let it run for some time, did what I had to do, and installed it, easy. But the first thing I noticed, was the metro interface, which I had heard about, people said it was designed for tablets, people claimed it was horrible and people said it was good once you were familiar with it. I trusted these people and decided to keep trying and making myself familiar with it. It was okay I guess, not too PC user-friendly but I could deal with it, the desktop however, was exactly the same as W7's desktop, but more annoying, with the metro interface and these charms coming up everytime you move your mouse to the corner of a screen, the lack of a start button was quite irritating as well but after installing a program I got the old start button back (sort of). Everything went fine. Until last week, my PC wouldn't start anymore, the Windows boot screen would come up and it would stay there. Spinning, spinning. Until it decided to stop spinning and shut down completely, when it restarted it went into this automatic recovery mode, which didn't work at all, it just stayed there, said the same thing, for another hour or so, then it said it was unable to resolve the issue and shut down. I researched, tried to fix it, had to use an old laptop to do anything on the internet, minutes became hours, hours became days.. Then I decided to get some professional help, he had some good suggestions but none of them worked. So what did I do, you might ask. Well, I knew that installing Windows 7 (which I still had a copy of) would wipe my hard drive, I decided not to take the risk. Instead I bought an external hard drive to install Windows 7 on.. and man, was I stupid, completely forgot that installing Windows on an external Hard drive was impossible (I know it's possible with a huge detour but it was one I could not make.) So I installed Linux, Ubuntu Linux to be precise. Linux is such versatile OS, you can install it anywhere, the installation was also to prove that my PC was in fact fine and that Windows 8 was the problem (meh, I sorta already knew this because opening the Bios wasn't a problem either) And what do you know, Ubuntu installed like a charm, and so quickly too. So, my PC worked, Ubuntu was fine, but there was still one problem. ALL my Windows software was not going to work with Linux, I HAD to install Windows 7 again, but how? Well, I backed up some files, but couldn't back up a lot eventually I only backed up about 2 games. So, I booped in the windows disk and had this great idea. What if I just removed the partition Windows 8 was on?? YEAH!!! Good idea, right? But then, oh man, what happened then was.... I don't even want to talk about it, after installing Windows I noticed something.... There were 2 partitions, one with 350 GB of space, which had Windows on it and one with. With, 1 TB of space. A 1 TB partition, just like the one I had before, with only one difference. It was empty. Completely empty. That drive had everything on it. All my art, music, videos, games, all was lost. Lost, I tell you! *Sigh* I know it's not extremely horribly bad, but darn it. I lost it all. It's going to take so long to recover from this mess. Well, atleast I've got an OS that actually wants to run now. Plus I have Linux, always nice to have on a seperate Hard Drive. So just as a little extra, anyone problems with W8?
Um... sucks to be you? Watch the news and get little bit of perspective. If this is the worst thing that ever happens to you, consider yourself lucky.
Personally, I haven't had any problems with Windows 8 (although my Laptop came with it). I have some friends that have installed Windows 8 over Windows 7 and it's working fine for them. However, I do have one friend who's hard disk drive was ruined by Windows 8. He must've had a similar problem to what you had. I quite like Windows 8. Since I hardly use the Metro at all (I stick to desktop links), it feels like Windows 7 to me, except it boots a lot faster. But my previous laptop was far from brilliant and had trouble running any version of Windows past XP, so I don't really know what Windows 7 is like on a powerful machine. I installed Linux Mint on that computer though, that ran incredibly smoothly. Anyway, sorry for your loss and I hope the damage wasn't too severe.
Oh no, that's not the worst thing that has ever happened to me, not by far. I watch the news, I know what horrible things happen in the world. Trust me. But still, it's definitely not a nice experience.
Happy to hear you're doing fine with it. As for my situation, well, it's not something I can't recover from, I'll be fine. Thank you for your concern .
Windows 8 is horrible and disgusting and nasty and vile and stupid and idiotic and Microsoft should die.
No problems with Win8 here, it's not installed and have no plans to update out of Win7. "Every other Windows release is bad." Windows 3.1x (1992) - Good Windows 95 (1995) - Mixed bag, at the beginning it sucked Windows 98 (1998) - Good Windows ME (2000) - Sucked (hard) Windows XP (2001) - Good Windows Vista (2006) - Sucked although not as hard as ME Windows 7 (2009) - Good 21 years and people still haven't figured out the system. And you, Peace- You selected "Delete" and didn't make a new partition for Win7, didn't you?
Uh so... only thing that would have come to my mind would be taking out the Disk and rebuild it as an external disc, and look with another pc if you can save something. Well my experience with Win8 was also not so good. So It was my first day at my new work, and my boss was like "okay we have that old pc there aaand well.. just go on and put win8 on it." And i did as you do, boot from cd and stuff isntalled it. Aand it didnt work. Well.. thought i did soething wrong, did everything again. Still not working, google the problem. "oh yeah there may be the possibility win 8 isnt working if you put a new graphic card in" sooo... well had to open it take out the card, aaaand start again. Bam no problem. Everything worked... So next thing was to mount an .iso to install stuff. So.. i downloaded daemon tools and did as always.. "the image is broken you cant use it". Okay... ooookay... well we still have no idea while it worked in the end, but it did. Im so happy my normal Work PC is on 7...
Man that sucks! It's not too great losing all you had, and then having to make it all again. tThink positive though, at least you'll only get the things you really used a lot now. and you'll have more space...?
I know exactly how you feel. I've lost so many things in the past thanks to HDD crashes and whatnot. It's really sad when you work for several months on a project, then suddenly the hard drive decides it'd be fun to die without any warnings.
This terminal has 3 hdds, one was the main drive before adding the extras plus a SSD for boot- they were added in December and I still haven't wiped the old one. I can't wipe it, I keep finding more tidbits on it every time I browse through it to decide if I should wipe it. I have an old Dell computer from 2006 that has been gutted for most of its parts except 1 PATA drive that I refuse to scrap. T_T I'll eventually hook it up I swear, same goes for that laptop hdd that's been sitting on a shelf for 4 years.
Man I couldn't begin to imagine losing all my data. A lot of it isn't just art and videos I've collected, but also stuff I have made myself. Losing that would be devastating.
Windows 8 is a vile OS windows has **** upon it's consumers. Need i remind you of Windows Vista? This is a rehash of Vista but dressed up in a proverbial cocktail dress. The obvious problem here is that you deleted the partition without backing up the registry.
Windows XP Master Race In all honesty, I dislike Windows 8. Greatly. Sorry that you went through this!
Recovering data that has been formatted is like trying to recover documents from a fire after the flames went out. Every other Windows release is bad, that is the cycle. I don't know which buttons were pressed exactly by Peace, I just know that Win8 was deleted, which added its divided space back to the pool, and Win7 formatted the 1.5TB~ish HDD as a whole and separated out 380GB for itself again. I don't know why Win7 formatted the whole drive, I've always done a full wipe if the OS was reinstalled. Nothing we can do about it now though.
Well if you can't fix your computer of get someone to fix it for you then your only other option is to buy a new computer.
