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Withdrawal

February 26th, 2005 | Comments Off | Tagged as: , , ,

I miss my computer. I feel so sad looking at it sit on my desk, unable to do anything. I hope Garrett can get SpinRite, because I don’t want to lose all of my pictures that I have taken, or the papers that I have written, or the programs that I have spent countless hours downloading. It just isn’t right. Computers should never do this to you. A fragile man like me just can’t take the pain caused by the abrupt separation from the world around him. The worst part is that I am not getting any more homework done without the distraction of my computer than when it was working fine.

Even if I have only been IMing for a little more than a month, and at that did it infrequently, I still miss it. Just the thought that people that I know are just a click away is so comforting. By the way, sorry CJ that I never got back with you after you suddenly disconnected, but it was about time for Phys lab anyway. By losing IM, getting plans together for next weekend will be a pain. After all, who reads their email anymore?

I can’t wait for next weekend! I get to go home Thursday after I get out of Social Science (ick). Then, Friday evening, I get to go to the Supertones concert! Don’t know who I will be going with, though. Chief said that a friend of his might be there, but I haven’t talked with him in close to a month. CJ has to work Friday night and Kristen is unavailable (don’t know why). My Mom is insisting that I go with someone and that if I can’t find someone, then she will go with me, since she likes the Supertones too. On Saturday afternoon, I might go hang out with CJ some. Who knows?

Sounds like some of us guys might get together and play euchre and Texas hold ‘em tonight. However, I still have six chapters (about 130 pages) to read on Critical Thinking for Social Science this weekend, plus I have to finish my Discreet Math, which I am completely lost on, and I want to write my extra credit assignment for Humanities so I don’t have to worry about it later. If I actually get that done, I might actually start working on my Humanities term paper, which has a first draft due on March 8th. Maybe I can get Maryanne to help me with it. I found out at the CIA main meeting last night that she loves writing, the exact opposite of me. Maybe with a little help from her I can actually get a decent grade on a writing assignment for once.

Repetition

February 25th, 2005 | Comments Off | Tagged as: , ,

Not a day after I finish my rant on Microsoft, they struck back in the nastiest way possible: they destroyed the partition table on my hard drive. For all you out there who don’t have a clue what i just wrote, it means that while all of my information is still on my hard drive, the computer doesn’t have the slightest clue where it is, so to it, my hard drive is empty. I am currently writing this on a lab computer since mine is obviously not working.

Anyway, back to why this happened in the first place. In the process of installing Norton GoBack, you must restart your computer to finish the installation. Upon restarting, everything was looking good, the Norton GoBack splash screen came up and so did the Windows boot screen. However, a few seconds after the boot screen came up, Windows bluescreened and automatically rebooted. This had me a little worried, but it had happened before. After it did this five times in a row, I realized that something was wrong.

I booted off of the Windows XP install CD and entered the recovery console. I ran the fixmbr and fixboot commands, hoping that they would remove GoBack from startup so I could get into Windows again. When I rebooted, I got an error that NTLDR was not found and that I should press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. NTLDR is a system file that loads Windows XP upon boot, so this was not a good sign. I rebooted with the XP CD and entered the recovery console. However, when I entered it did not ask me what Windows installation I wanted to log into. When I tried to copy ntdlr from the CD to my computer, I was told that the operation could not be performed. It turns out that the fixmbr command that I had run earlier had destroyed the partition table. Why must Microsoft make commands that say "fix" when they destroy like they did to me.

So, it will at least be Monday before my computer will be running again. Garrett is going to try to dig up some software for me that will let me recover all of my important files over the weekend. The program looks like it will take about 22 hours to run on my size hard drive Once I have copied all of my files, I get to format my hard drive and start back over again from scratch. Not fun.

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