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STATE OF EMERGENCY!! Vista ATE (eat) itself!! O_O
[MAF]falky:
Crap lol, I got 2 drives.... one with Server 08 and the other with Vista Ultimate.
Yesterday I decided to do some disk cleanup on the Vista disk (while booted on the Vista partition), I did this after repairing my registry with Reg. Mechanic. When I saw how much was gonna be cleaned/deleted from my disk, I saw a whopping 109GB! o_O lol but I knew that Windows sometimes make errors in reporting memory info, so I went with the cleanup....
After like 15 minutes to the clean up, I noticed my desktop icons disappeared. But I assumed that it was my display doing a long refresh.
After the clean up, I then realized that 3/4 of my files have been deleted! WTF?! O_O It included ALL my music, videos, pictures; some program files; and most importantly.... a big chunk of my system files went missing O_O
Panicked, I rebooted my computer, hoping to wake up from this nightmare.... but because of missing system files, Windows was not able to boot up :'(
So I did what every man would do.... reformat 8)
After installing Windows, I googled my problem and found out the cause of my problem.... registry cleaners :-\
It said in a few articles and board discussions that a lot of people had experienced this problem already, and the cause was the registry cleaner deleting 2 keys in the registry that contained the cache info of the disk.... with this deleted, the disk cleanup utility gets confused and eats itself instead :-X
So for guys who use Vista, have registry cleaners or/and are planning to install one soon (especially those who cleans up his drive regularly), UNINSTALL/DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I know that Microsoft has a big problem in it's hands as this problem is now being experienced by a lot of people who use different kinds of registry cleaners (imagine the amount of data lost o.o), but before Microsoft does something.... us Vista users must 1st take necessary precautions while waiting for an update, I will keep you guys posted 8)
PS: Good news though.... ALL my files are backed up weekly in a rewritable double layer DVD I own :-*
btw, if any of you guys have (already) experienced this problem, take the time to share :)
[MAF]Snoopy:
:L
[MAF]PyroFox:
I used the same registry cleaner as you. That didn't happen to me, but I got rid of it. I also use Ccleaner, it has never let me down so I will continue to use it.
[MAF]falky:
--- Quote from: [XR]FireFox on July 03, 2008, 02:21:15 pm ---I used the same registry cleaner as you. That didn't happen to me, but I got rid of it. I also use Ccleaner, it has never let me down so I will continue to use it.
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ok.... well here is something that came from the registry mechanic forum itself and this guy experimented with the scenario using both reg mech and ccleaner:
--- Quote ---This thread is interesting and I'm glad I dropped by today.
FYI, this happened to me about 4 months ago, I took an afternoon to do some maintenance, ran RM, Disk Cleanup, defragged, and the operating system literally ate itself alive and I had to reformat and reinstall, couldn't even get into safe mode to try restoring the RM backups or perform a System Restore.
After getting up and running again I 'googled' like mad to try and find the root of the problem but came up against a brick wall. I ran a scan with RM but didn't fix anything just saved the log to investigate it to see if I could identify if that was the problem but have just never had the time. I took a conscious decision not to clean the registry in Vista, for the time being anyway, as perhaps it is just to 'young' for such advanced programs to fully understand yet and have not had a problem since.
That is until this week. I tempted fate and decided to run the registry clean utility in ccleaner as part of an afternoon of cleaning everything up, which I have never really bothered with before, (just use it for cleaning the 'junk'), fixed the errors, (I did go through them and couldn't spot anything hugely untoward), and a similar scenario happened again.
I personally am not touching the registry in Vista again, I do reformat annually, which I plan the time for, in the past 9 months I have had to do it twice at unplanned times, and after using a regisrty cleaner. I have been tempted just to put XP back on .
Could all be a coincidence and not the root of the cause at all but I am definitely taking the 'twice bitten, third time shy' attitude with tampering with Vista's registry.
Kronos thanks for the link to the discussion on cnet about this. Everyone could be barking up the wrong tree but I am glad to have encountered some other people that this has happened to because thinking it had only happened to me was driving me nuts LOL.
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source: http://www.pctools.com/forum/showpost.php?s=002363ad7ff68f022632ae0728865373&p=174109&postcount=5
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Skaterkills:
OUCH
That sucks... thats what you get when you buy a unfinished product ::)
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