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  1. October 17th, 2004, 10:00 AM #1
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    Question Unreadable Fonts (scary)

    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
    Heard at a local auto-repair shop:
    "I couldn't repair your brakes,
    so I made your horn louder."
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  2. October 17th, 2004, 10:08 AM #2
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    Sounds like a corrupt or replaced font file .
    Wasnt replaced by wingdings out of interest?
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  3. October 17th, 2004, 02:03 PM #3
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    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
    Heard at a local auto-repair shop:
    "I couldn't repair your brakes,
    so I made your horn louder."
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  4. October 17th, 2004, 11:46 PM #4
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    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
    Heard at a local auto-repair shop:
    "I couldn't repair your brakes,
    so I made your horn louder."
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  6. October 18th, 2004, 12:43 AM #5
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    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.
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  7. October 20th, 2004, 07:50 AM #6
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    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
    Heard at a local auto-repair shop:
    "I couldn't repair your brakes,
    so I made your horn louder."
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