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Yesterday I had a very scary unexplainable thing happen to my main hard drive OS: When I started up my computer all the fonts were unreadable just a bunch of dashes, slashes and swigged marks etc. Thank God I have a Ghost backup on a second drive that brought it back to its original state. Any ideas on what happened :confused:
Sounds like a corrupt or replaced font file :( .
Wasnt replaced by wingdings out of interest?
I know enough to know that this was definitely not a corrupt font of any kind. Every letter no matter what shape or size was corrupt somehow... That's the mystery.... How :confused:
I'm sure I'm not the only person that this has happened to... I was lucky to have backed up my system, what happens to someone that doesn't have that option available :(
Actually there are several things to do in XP that could fix this without reinstalling xp either by the cd itself or a ghost image. First there is the command sfc /scannow this usually fixes corrupted files. Then there is the repair option and the chkdsk /r, which also fixes files that sfc /scannow doesn't.
If this ever happens again I will try one of the alternative ways to fix the problem... My main concern is what made this happen in the first place, I guess you would have to see it for yourself to understand. It not only changed all the wording, it also changed the size of other surrounding items... VERY :confused: