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    CAREFUL before you install Alcohol 120%!!!!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by zenecis, Sep 28, 2006.

  1. zenecis

    zenecis Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got my E1505 last week. As soon as I got it I formatted the hard drive.

    I left Partition 1 to reinstall Media Direct.

    I divided hard drive into two, 40gb and 70gb.

    I installed all the programs I need for my work and school.

    Today I was working on my project and I had to make an image of my friend's CD. Unfortunately I didn't have any program that rips off protected CD. I downloaded Alcohol 120% and when I try to install the program it asked me something like not compatible with kernel blah blah blah, I just ignored it and installed it. It URGED me to reboot and I did. When my computer was booting, I kept getting DEATH OF BLUE SCREEN while it was loading Windows XP. At this moment I really didn't care because I saved all my works at D drive. And I had an image back up in D drive. I inserted my AE CD and when I boot up It kept saying Invalid drives. I used Partition Magic Boot Up CD to see what the heck was going on, and when I checked on the drives. It said INVALID DRIVE. I had to delete my C and D drives and format everything...AND ALL MY WORK IS GONE NOW...
     
    zenecis, Sep 28, 2006
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  2. Airman

    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    Wow thats terrible, but really alcohol isn't that great anyways, I just use Nero and Daemon Tools for stuff like that.

    Finally 100 posts :)
     
    Airman, Sep 28, 2006
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  3. zenecis

    zenecis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well nero doesn't rip off protected cd... I had nero and I had Daemon Tools...
     
    zenecis, Sep 28, 2006
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  4. Airman

    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    Thats why I had both ;)
    I used Daemon tools for that
     
    Airman, Sep 28, 2006
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    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

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    Damm that sucks
     
    gridtalker, Sep 28, 2006
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    danimal1968 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I guess the moral of the story is don't rip off protected cds
     
    danimal1968, Sep 28, 2006
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    Crazeman Notebook Consultant

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    weird, i had the BSoD when i installed daemon tools so i just rebooted, went into windows via safe mode, uninstalled, and it worked again.

    but alcohol works fine without any problem for my laptop.
     
    Crazeman, Sep 28, 2006
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  8. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    that's what you get for playing with fire

    /thread closed
     
    drumfu, Sep 28, 2006
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