We got tons of runes to make the IC scrolls. Think still got that IC
scroll from Vox the last time. Ask CQ1 about it lor.
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From: "LKW" <leekw13@...>
To: "'* Singapore EQ Mailing List'" <sg-everquest@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:05 AM
Subject: [sg-everquest] MIA: My long and naggy CR experience :(
> Got a very very bad day on Fri night, ops, Sat morning.
>
> Was hunting in Unrest with DF, he was helping me with the Acumen Mask
> quest. We took in 2 newbie healers, and the hunt supposed to end quite
> early but one of the 2 healers was a damn CCB looter. Already told them
in
> advance they can get all the loot except the NO DROP, worthless darkbone
> skull (while DF get some xp), yet this KNN idiot go and loot the 1st
skull.
> In the end no choice, hunt longer.
>
> Shortly after I got the skull, I stayed back with DF, hoping to get him a
> BS tunic to sell, thanks for his companion and help. While standing on
the
> fountain, suddenly my screen turned blue! I tried all means to close the
> blue screen (infamous win9x GPF) but system simply hanged. No choice, so
I
> turned off my PC and turned it on again. When I rebooted, win98 did it
> normal scandisk and this time it showed many corrupted files, crosslinks
> etc. No choice, I get all of them fixed. Just before it reached the
win98
> desktop screen, system halted again! I kept trying to load my PC and the
> same old thing keep coming back - files/directory corrupted and system had
> to rename file/directories...until a stage it renamed my win.com file!!!
> Damn PC finally down as it can't even load it's win98! I struggled for 2
> hrs (till 6am in the morning) and gave up.
>
> The next time, Sat, the saga continued. Again I tried to boot from CDrom,
> FDD etc but system simply dun worked. In the end I selected boot from
> win98 CDrom and reinstall win98. Still got file errors during scandisk
but
> I managed to install my win98. Next I went on to install all drivers
> etc...damn...pc lock-up again. When I rebooted...scandisk got error, fix
> file and rename...the same old cycle con't. Everytime it scandisk, it
> found more corrupted and crosslinked files (and it renamed more files just
> to fixed them). I kept on scandisk, reinstall win98 until I fall asleep
in
> front of my PC (wake up and 6am Sunday and realized the damn thing still
> scandisking!!!).
>
> In the end, Sun morning....gave up. Try my very best to retrieve my data
> using dos prompt but still lost many important files. Some files, like
> ICQ/DB/*.* files, all got cut-short becoz the filename > 8 chars and dos
> prompt can only copy max 8.3 files. Anyway no choice. Ard noon time,
> completed data CR mission. Becoz of so many corrupted and crosslink
files,
> I decided to reformat my HDD thoroughly, by using LOW-LVL formnat! The
> format (8.4GB hdd) took me so long....from noon to night 10pm plus!!!
> After that, I spend like 3 hrs reinstalling all my drivers, ISP, MS
> office, EQ (included patching online) etc. By the time I finally patching
> EQ, already 1am plus. Login EQ just to get my char out of unrest (heng,
> still alive, hehe). Sigh, dun even got time to install UO (UO got longer
> online patch than EQ). Maybe tonight I will con't with my PC CR mission
;(
>
> All my The Sim goodies are gone (gotta re-train my 'perfect-skilled'
sims),
> my chars and treasures found in BG and GB expanion, my UO and EQ
> macro/hotkey list etc....sigh.
>
> Now I know the importance of HDD backup. Anyone got any good CDRW machine
> to introduce? Shld I get internal or external one? I dun think I can
> afford SCSI, so any EIDE or parallel port version is good enuff. Pls
> recommend.
>
> p/s: Died by DROWNING (in DC) while trying to do the ice comet quest. How
> long can mage's water stone last? Maybe someone can summon me a few when
I
> do the quest again this or next week. Ouch, also dropped lvl...gotta go
> back kill dwarves again, hehe.
>
> Ziltus, the real CR man!
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