Sorry, I don't know where to post my question:

A few days ago I formatted my PC and installed BOINC again. But before I formatted, BOINC had some WU in cache and those are now lost. I forgot to wait untill they were done...

Now, because I like to be polite, I want to report this loss to Berkeley. Just so that they know and can see for themselves if and what action they take.

Is there anyone who might be able to help me or know an answer?

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Wolf

"Live life to the max"

Keep on crunching! The WU's will be redistributed again although the other crunchers might be a little un happy they have to wait for credit. Don't be too upset, it happens. (It's when it's done intentually that is crappy)

You are absolved my son!


Timmy

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Maybe Berkley needs to set up a Lost & Found WU Deptment ... hahahaha ... Just Kidding ;)

> Maybe Berkley needs to set up a Lost & Found WU Deptment ... hahahaha ...
> Just Kidding ;)
>

The LOST part I can understand. But how do I know where to FIND the wu?

;-)

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Wolf

"Live life to the max"

> > Maybe Berkley needs to set up a Lost & Found WU Deptment ... hahahaha
> ...
> > Just Kidding ;)
> >
>
> The LOST part I can understand. But how do I know where to FIND the wu?
>
> ;-)
>
>

Here little WU here little WU woof woof sniff.

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got it wuff wuff :-)))

> Sorry, I don't know where to post my question:
>
> A few days ago I formatted my PC and installed BOINC again. But before I
> formatted, BOINC had some WU in cache and those are now lost. I forgot to wait
> untill they were done...
>
> Now, because I like to be polite, I want to report this loss to Berkeley. Just
> so that they know and can see for themselves if and what action they take.
>
> Is there anyone who might be able to help me or know an answer?
>
Any time you are going to reformat just save the BOINC folder that is found under C:\Program Files\BOINC After you reformat and reload then just copy and paste the old BOINC folder in C:\Program Files and it will ask that you overwrite. Choose yes and you will pick up where you left off. Just make sure that if you are going to take a while to do the reformatting that your expected due time for the WU can still be met.

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I had bit of a problem on my two machines last night. I think I have lost all the WUs on one and I am trying to recover the WUs on the second; although it may be a lost cause.
I apologise to anyone who might be waiting on me.

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SAS Associate

Karl,

> I had bit of a problem on my two machines last night. I think I have lost all
> the WUs on one and I am trying to recover the WUs on the second; although it
> may be a lost cause.
> I apologise to anyone who might be waiting on me.

This is the cost of doing business. I had my machines running while I was visiting my daughter and had to call home and have my wife shoot severall machines because they got hung up in one way or another.

Sad to say she also unplugged at least one machine that had been running fine. So, when I got home I must have had 50-60 WU that were past deadline and had to be dumped. I had similar situations when I was running SETI@Home Classic with SETI Spy and SETI Driver. Though back then we did not have a deadline so, most times I was able to salvage the situation.

BOINC is like the networking software we use, it remains robust iin the presecnce of error and is self-correcting ...

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Bit of good news - thanks to a protected re-cycle bin I have recovered all my WUs - honestly thought they would be gone. Both machines back up and running.
Karl

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SAS Associate

I wouldn't worry much about the honest loss of a machine. This happens occasionally, and it is why WUs are sent again after a two week delay. I have had a HD die and take all of the WUs with it. (At that point, the computer was not worth saving either, as I had a replacement lined up).

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BOINC WIKI

Ya im a new user. Here is the problem, I have a computer and the hard drive thats in it is ntfs so i took my old hardrive and also put it in for more room. Except it is fat32. Now i was wondering how to reformat my fat32 hard drive so i can use it as extra space. The fat32 drive is full so i want everything deleted. Does any one here can help me. I also have partition magig 8.0 if that helps.


thank you

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What operating system?
For Windows: my computer,right click on drive, select format, It will give optons!

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if you have nt or up you can use the convert command in the cmd window
type convert/? and the instruction will show.
I just did this to the used laptop that I just got.
It had win xp installed on the fat32 drive.
I had installed programs and had disk errors then I relized it was a fat 32 drive.
After the conversion all the software work OK.
When it was fat32 the computer ran scandisk and found errors.
aftwer the convertion I deleted the found00 folder.

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Fred
BOINC Alpha, BOINC Beta, LHC Alpha, Einstein Alpha

kk when i have reformated. I dont want to put windows on it
im leaving it blank. So then when i download somethign thats where its goin. now do i have to put windows on it or what. or do i have to have it in ntfs mode after reformatted to do it.

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One lst question to u people how do you know if your hard drive is a scsi hd.??

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> One lst question to u people how do you know if your hard drive is a scsi
> hd.??
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It should tell you in your Device Manager under Disk Drives ...

You can use the convert command [see my post below] it only converts the drive file system and does not install anything on the drive.

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Fred
BOINC Alpha, BOINC Beta, LHC Alpha, Einstein Alpha

99.9% it's an IDE drive. I've only once seen SCSI used on an x86 - and that was an IBM server.

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