My Dell Inpsiron 8200 bit the dust last night. It's been giving me some serious problems lately, but when I went to boot last night, it gave me a firm "NO".
Something happened a couple months ago to make my laptop start crawling, but only when tilted on anything other than a horizontal plane. As soon as I would correct it, it would speed back up. The video display driver had also been giving me hell (since day 1 almost). The crappy driver causes the laptop to freeze, and then blue-screen me at completely random intervals. So about a month ago I wiped my computer clean, and installed a fresh copy of WinXP with the hopes that maybe a clean install would solve at least 1 problem. Alas, I was wrong. The only thing I managed to do was clean some excess programs off my computer.
Well, the other night I tried booting the computer up, and it took about 20 minutes (no lie). Once it I was able to login, it told me that my account was corrupted and could not be loaded (goodbye bookmarks, mail settings, my frikkin desktop, etc) and that it would be using a temporary account. Yeah. So I logged in thinking I would try to recover my data with my jump drive, but NOOOO, the thing decided not to recognize my jumpdrive! Since I'm out at starbucks, this eliminates my only option for data recovery at that point. Not that it matters, 10 minutes of trying to get some work done, and my computer blue-screens me. I proceed to shut it down, and go home annoyed.
When I went to boot last night, it wants me to run the repair disk. So i do. It finds nothing wrong. Thanks. Thanks a lot. What do I do now? Re-install the OS, and pray to God that my other partition isn't ruined. Boy this is a pain.
Next time. I get an iBook. I backup frequently. I live happy.
Posted by kposey at February 4, 2005 11:23 AM | TrackBack