The Bears Can Keep It
posted by Jaitu at 20:53
Starting tomorrow morning we will be having some work done in the house. In order for this to happen we have had to clear out (as best we can) our bedroom and the spare room which I have taken over. With this in mind I decided it was time to get rid of my old Pentium III machine, which was mostly just taking up valuable space, and donate it to charity. I use my laptop for *everything* anyway. So having removed hard disks from the chassis and having packed anything remotely useful into boxes I powered up the laptop to check email and do some woek on the RTDL2 Store.
It was at this point that Windows XP decided to play a new and frustratingly different game. No matter what I chose from the boot menu it would simply reset the PC a few seconds later and leave me again faced with the same options. Needless to say my backup strategy is second to none. In truth my backup strategy is equal to none.
I sat with my head in my hands staring at the cyclic failure to launch contemplating all the design work sitting on the now inaccessable drives and mumbling alliterative phrases fat with the phoneme 'ph'.
Fortunately it turned out to be a relatively easy fix. A borrowed XP Pro installation CD and an hour or two letting CHKDSK perform it's /R flavoured magic and I had a fully functioning window onto a wider world. I do have a fully licensed install but as is the way of the PC OEM I didn't get a useful install CD with the pre-installed OS. ElDiablo loaned me his disk and completely failed to capitalise on the opportunity to evangelise about the spiritual goodness embodied in Linux.
The only thing I can put this event down to was my recent choice to use the hibernate option instead of a full shutdown. With the number of external devices attached to the laptop it's not very surprising that it got it's knickers in a knot when I tried to resume the session. Anyway, lesson learnt. Leave hibernation for the bears.
On a seperate note some more new products have arrived in the RTDL2 Store. A couple more Cold Roses shirts in dark navy (as requested by the Womble) along with some simple Orc inspired designs which you may hear more about should I ever follow up on a side project.
It was at this point that Windows XP decided to play a new and frustratingly different game. No matter what I chose from the boot menu it would simply reset the PC a few seconds later and leave me again faced with the same options. Needless to say my backup strategy is second to none. In truth my backup strategy is equal to none.
I sat with my head in my hands staring at the cyclic failure to launch contemplating all the design work sitting on the now inaccessable drives and mumbling alliterative phrases fat with the phoneme 'ph'.
Fortunately it turned out to be a relatively easy fix. A borrowed XP Pro installation CD and an hour or two letting CHKDSK perform it's /R flavoured magic and I had a fully functioning window onto a wider world. I do have a fully licensed install but as is the way of the PC OEM I didn't get a useful install CD with the pre-installed OS. ElDiablo loaned me his disk and completely failed to capitalise on the opportunity to evangelise about the spiritual goodness embodied in Linux.
The only thing I can put this event down to was my recent choice to use the hibernate option instead of a full shutdown. With the number of external devices attached to the laptop it's not very surprising that it got it's knickers in a knot when I tried to resume the session. Anyway, lesson learnt. Leave hibernation for the bears.
On a seperate note some more new products have arrived in the RTDL2 Store. A couple more Cold Roses shirts in dark navy (as requested by the Womble) along with some simple Orc inspired designs which you may hear more about should I ever follow up on a side project.
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