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My PC died with all my passwords

oh there it was. i guess i'm not downloading again

..... and i'm delayed

--- sry again


and sorry that you lost your password.
i guess it's better to have had a password, then to have never had a password at all

right lulz
 
4DQSAR said:
I'm sorry to bug people but my PC just died in a remarkably spectacular manner. I kept my passwords in a .txt document ON that PC.

The flames have died down, the fire service has dumped my old PC outside my home and I'm not back - with an extra dimention.

I do apologize to anyone who has PMed me or otherwise interacted with me. But I am regularly told that my distinctive writing style is something of a giveaway.

I will continue to do my best to provide the narrow but rare skillset my wasted education provided for me.
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It burs-ted into flames serious, so no way to salvage ?
Harddisk cooked.

Or as matter of speech. Do you not de-dust in a few a year or not.
Then i can imagine overheating, and the dust igniting.
But which PC nerd would do that, not clean there PC.

Oh yeah me. Gonna do a cleanup today. good idea !

If not burned. You can still retrieve what s on the Hard Disk.
Salvage your info on it, if the needle isn t pinned in it.
Then you are in deeper shit.

You need a installation DVD of UBUNTU/ LINUX.
Runs on RAM mem only. Access Hard-Disk and ...

Transfer all important data on a memory stick, or a carry HD.
 
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If you still have a physical hard drive and it is "bricked" look in to Gibson's spin rite:

Spin-Rite

Here is an "old school" data recovery tool that works absolute wonders. I've been using it since the 1980's; the author wrote it in assembly and maintains it to this day. You don't even need an operating system because it boots it's own and works on the drive onthe hardware / magnetic domain detection level and can recover drives that have multiple grey bits, bad sectors and FATs. The same software works on SSD's as well. This software got me out of a lot of pain for clients that needed their data and didn't back it it up.

It may take a long time to complete the task, depending on how damaged it is, but I seldom have seen it fail.
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
If you still have a physical hard drive and it is "bricked" look in to Gibson's spin rite:

Spin-Rite

Here is an "old school" data recovery tool that works absolute wonders. I've been using it since the 1980's; the author wrote it in assembly and maintains it to this day. You don't even need an operating system because it boots it's own and works on the drive onthe hardware / magnetic domain detection level and can recover drives that have multiple grey bits, bad sectors and FATs. The same software works on SSD's as well. This software got me out of a lot of pain for clients that needed their data and didn't back it it up.

It may take a long time to complete the task, depending on how damaged it is, but I seldom have seen it fail.
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Whats bricked ? Needle in the groove stuck.
Then Ubuntu won t help. Afaik.

Is it even better then LINUX for this purpose, never heard of it.
UBUNTU/ LINUX is continuously updated, seems a advantage ?

With UBUNTU installation disk choose the try out option, not install !
See if it sees your HD, i saved so many peoples lost files.
As their Windows gave up. Sound about the same as Spin-Rite.
Using only The mem to function as OS. And its 1-2-3 done.

A 70 + looked me doing it, and called me after i salvaged Musea stuff.
He himself succeeded in my footsteps retrieving marriage pic of his daughter.
So its not hard, or he was a 70+ genious PC born NERD.

Without knowing.
 
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emkee_reinvented said:
Whats bricked ? Needle in the groove stuck.
Then Ubuntu won t help. Afaik.

Is it even better then LINUX for this purpose, never heard of it.
UBUNTU/ LINUX is continuously updated, seems a advantage ?

With UBUNTU installation disk choose the try out option, not install !
See if it sees your HD, i saved so many peoples lost files.
As their Windows gave up. Sound about the same as Spin-Rite.
Using only The mem to function as OS. And its 1-2-3 done.

A 70 + looked me doing it, and called me after i salvaged Musea stuff.
He himself succeeded in my footsteps retrieving marriage pic of his daughter.
So its not hard, or he was a 70+ genious PC born NERD.

Without knowing.
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Yeah, well just trying to help. Fact is, it is not Linux or any other OS replacement. It is a tool that fixes storage devices that no longer boot or that have data loss; and it works on any drive regardless of what OS it was formatted for. It works on the hardware level.

The big drawback is that it samples the media repeatedly to resolve grey bits; that takes time. Serious time, like hours or even a day if it's extensive. There is a line beyond which data cannot be retrieved, but that is usually due to physical damage.

It's not widely known because it's not really directed at the average consumer, but for data retrieval and IT use, plus anyone that needs to retrieve data that has been lost or damaged, like Healthcare and Diagnostic Imaging, and agencies like the NTSB or FBI . I know about it because that a fairly large part of what I did before I retired.

Please feel free to ignore it 👍
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Yeah, well just trying to help. Fact is, it is not Linux or any other OS replacement. It is a tool that fixes storage devices that no longer boot or that have data loss; and it works on any drive regardless of what OS it was formatted for. It works on the hardware level.

The big drawback is that it samples the media repeatedly to resolve grey bits; that takes time. Serious time, like hours or even a day if it's extensive. There is a line beyond which data cannot be retrieved, but that is usually due to physical damage.

It's not widely known because it's not really directed at the average consumer, but for data retrieval and IT use, plus anyone that needs to retrieve data that has been lost or damaged, like Healthcare and Diagnostic Imaging, and agencies like the NTSB or FBI . I know about it because that a fairly large part of what I did before I retired.

Please feel free to ignore it 👍
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What s 'Bricked' ? One of my HD got the needle pinned in the groove.
is that bricked, Then only a Forensic Police lab.
You worked in such a place a dust free zone to break the vaccum HDs ?
Cool job. Or a commercial company which can retrieve it at a enormous cost.

Other wise UBUNTU seems the easier way. takes minutes max an hour.
 
emkee_reinvented said:
What s 'Bricked' ? One of my HD got the needle pinned in the groove.
is that bricked, Then only a Forensic Police lab.
You worked in such a place a dust free zone to break the vaccum HDs ?
Cool job. Or a commercial company which can retrieve it at a enormous cost.

Other wise UBUNTU seems the easier way. takes minutes max an hour.
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what's bricked... :unsure:

maybe the inter webs might help :shrug:

But whatever solution floats your boat, just do it ...

That's why it's a PERSONAL COMPUTER ...

You do you 😊
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
what's bricked... :unsure:

maybe the inter webs might help :shrug:

But whatever solution floats your boat, just do it ...

That's why it's a PERSONAL COMPUTER ...

You do you 😊
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What do you guess i been doing in-between posting :unsure:
Jerking off, doing dishes.

Oh and the Web so clear only finding right truth to a question
might take a few hours. So asking is faster,but if the poster
even doesn t know the meaning of what he/ she posted.

Does it matter? I am who am. You do you !
Not very good at it, maybe try I i am who am ?

:memecat: IDC: I Defy Crew
[thought the c ment cops, crew/ cops little difference]
 
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kiely said:
oh there it was. i guess i'm not downloading again

..... and i'm delayed

--- sry again


and sorry that you lost your password.
i guess it's better to have had a password, then to have never had a password at all

right lulz
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Well, it's nice that people who I have conversed with at length are able to work out it's me purely based on my writing style.

I know my posts may appear pedantic but I'm only ever tryng to ensure that what I write cannot be misunderstood. I always bear in mind Wittegenstein's statment regarding writing. 'The limit of my language is the limit of my world'.
 
4DQSAR said:
Well, it's nice that people who I have conversed with at length are able to work out it's me purely based on my writing style.

I know my posts may appear pedantic but I'm only ever tryng to ensure that what I write cannot be misunderstood. I always bear in mind Wittegenstein's statment regarding writing. 'The limit of my language is the limit of my world'.
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Double plus points from me for being pernickity with language and quoting Wittgenstein.
 
PassSentence may work better than a Pass Word.


Just a thought. But probably will have to include a % or a number.


I guess you have to be a Genius. Yes it's really food for thought YumYumYummy1

4DQ is good. What a fun(ny) thread. Lools.


Glad you got it back somehow. :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:

I really am. 🙂 What can I say. Remember to make a sentence then. lool. <3
 
kiely said:
PassSentence may work better than a Pass Word.


Just a thought. But probably will have to include a % or a number.


I guess you have to be a Genius. Yes it's really food for thought YumYumYummy1

4DQ is good. What a fun(ny) thread. Lools.


Glad you got it back somehow. :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:

I really am. 🙂 What can I say. Remember to make a sentence then. lool. <3
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A 16 digit number in a series of four 4 digit codes, easy to remember and very secure. Its a bitch when this happens, as much as i try to not entrust any passkey to a computer connected to the internet and memorise all my passkeys i always save a few "daft" sites passwords and end up losing them ffs
 
As it is written 'thy shall know his presence by the excessive quantity married to the poor quality of circumlocution within his missives'.

OR

'that Idiot who uses long words'
 
4DQSAR said:
Well, it's nice that people who I have conversed with at length are able to work out it's me purely based on my writing style.

I know my posts may appear pedantic but I'm only ever tryng to ensure that what I write cannot be misunderstood. I always bear in mind Wittegenstein's statment regarding writing. 'The limit of my language is the limit of my world'.
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Sorry i don t understand my own posts if i read em more then one time, often.

So misunderstanding is a natural part of communication.
And imo it works better on a forum then face to face,
telephone, email or whatsFLapp so far.

Go for your own style, misunderstanding is of less relevance,
then sincerity or integrity. Can most of the time be corrected !

And a own style is cool. Tempting shall i check your postings close :)
 
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