Somehow I managed to corrupt WoW so badly that it reverted to 2.0.0.
The patch from 2.0.0 to 2.2.x is 450megs. Maybe I'll be on later... maybe....
Owies =( Good luck, Koth! Hopefully I'll see you in game when I get a spare moment or three...
(yet another all-nighter in the ECE labs. Whoooooo!)
Hope to see you soon :(
Ouch - feel your pain Kothnok. Hope everything gets fixed quickly.
Dang Koth that sucks :(.
Hope it will be a fast and smooth fix for you :).
Hope things are improving, Koth! Sorry about your difficulties. :(
got it back up and working, thx all O0
Hehe good to hear how did you manage to mess it up so bad though :P?
Quote... how did you manage to mess it up so bad though :P?
How can I explain that one easily? Hrm... let me just say what I learned from the experience...
- When swapping hard drives, always shut down the OS (no sleep, no hibernate)
- When swapping hard drives, ensure you remove the battery
- Failure to do both of the above keeps the OS alive, but asleep, in memory
- Every OS I've worked with when encountering the above situation will crash, but nothing more serious than needing to reboot
- MS Vista, unlike it's predecessors, will try to wake up even if the hard drive it went to sleep on is completely different
- Vista eventually pukes once it realizes it no longer exists on the hard drive
- Vista's infinite wisdom dictated that I needed to save it's puke and it dumped memory to the hard drive
- Vista caches what it thought the hard drive should look like, so when it dumped the contents of my memory, it did so based on a folder structure completely alien to the drive that is actually present.
End result: 2Gigs of my hard drive was overwritten in random spots, corrupting a unknown bunch of files (most of which happened to be WoW related)