I think I have a winner here...

Guy brought in a Toshiba Vista laptop that wouldn't boot, says it was given to him by his sister. He wanted to clean it out on his own, so he deleted all of his sister's documents, files, programs, etc.

He wanted to be really thorough about it, so he tried to delete everything pertaining to his sister's stuff - including all .sys files...

Makes sense to me...roflmao

 

Sounds like a re-install waiting to happen.

 

Yeah, he used some program (Delete Doctor? Something like that - I don't know) to find and delete files - it obviously worked, because the machine was as dead as a doornail...

No MS or Toshiba disk, of course, and no $$$, so I just DBAN'ed it and installed Mint 10. Works like a charm, he's happy, I'm happy...

And, I told him to leave his syster's stuff alone...

 

Now for the $1,000,000 question.
How sure are you that it was "given" to him by his "sister"?rolleyes:confused

 

Should have told him that Format C: /s is fas...

 

View system files

'These are protected system files are you sure you want to view them'

Yes

DELETE

Files are in use and cannot be deleted

Downloading delete doctor

'These are essential operating system files are you sure you wish to delete'

DELETE

'Delete doctors will have to disable essential windows services are you sure you wish to continue?'

YES

'Disabling services,deleting files'

:crap

'Please call Caliban':-D

 

HA! David, forgot you worked in a hospital - I can imagine a program like Delete Doctor could come in handy sometimes...maybe you could burn some copies, give them to all the nurses who have problems with their bosses! :-D :guns :-D

I hate to say it, but this guy must be dumb as a stump. As Rikky pointed out, there had to have been some kind of warning about destroying system files.

I don't judge 'em, I just nuke 'em...

 

Totally agree we've all been there

 

Delete Doctor is a MG tested download

 

Yep - maybe David could write a review about the program in Rikky's Review Forum, let us know how well it deletes doctors...

roflmao

 

I've never used delete doctor but just on the experiences of your friend I would say it works really freakin good:-D

 

Works well, especially if you need to delete something that doesn't want to die, like a virus that loads on start up, because Delete Doctor can stomp on it before it's got a chance to start.