Rosemary isn't well.

[jackofallgeeks]

Last night as I was surfing the Internet, my computer started to have
major slow downs, and then began to freeze. After a couple restarts,
Windows decided that my disks needed to be check for consistency: first it
checked C: and found no errors, then it crashed again, checked D: and found
a boatload of errors, and found errors on C: after rechecking that.
Then it just failed to load; I got a Blue Screen before the login page ever
came up. Both C: and D: reside on the same physical disk, which is actually
the older of two that I currently have (E: is it's own physical drive). I
put all of Windows on C: so that I can reinstall Windows without actually
losing real data.

All last night I tried to reinstall Windows and failed. The Installation
hung on copying over setup files several times, and then told me that it
couldn't reformat C: and that the disk may be damaged. So I resolved to buy
a new drive today, install Windows on that, and try and recover data from
the dieing drive. This morning I gave it a final try, reseated the drive's
cables, and Installation was able to successfully complete. (I'm a little
worried that maybe it was just a cable problem to begin with, except that
there's nothing that would have jostled the cables to begin with.)

Reinstalling Windows is a pain. Mostly it's the reinstalling of all my
programs (ZoneAlarm Firewall, Avast! Antivirus, wireless card, video card,
and games), but also just reorganizing my files -- My Documents won't be
recognized as such when I relogon to the 'new' Windows. A piece of me is
concerned that I may lose data, mostly I'm concerned for my photos and
music. I have no idea how (assuming it's not dieing on D:) to re-associate
my iTunes with my music. (I've used iTunes extensively, so about half of my
music is DRM'd Apple files as opposed to easy-to-manage mp3s...)

I'm taking it all a little hard -- I'm absurdly attached to my computer, and
seeing her hurt this way has me a bit heartbroken. She's my major
connection out to the rest of the world (most of my friends live in my
computer); thankfully, my iTouch (and work computer) esure that I'm not
totally cut off while I'm fixing her.

Anyways...

Comments

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

Why'd you name her Rosemary.

Also, what were the criteria by which you determined her gender?

I'm not teasing, I'm curious. It's interesting seeing how people decide these sorts of things. For example, my brother has a porsche 914 that he calls "Ziggy" (pet for Siegfried since it's a German car). He decided that Ziggy is a boy car based on instinct alone in his assessment of that particular model. He also says that, had it been a 913 (or whatever the model just before the 914 was) then it would have been a girl car, because that's what those feel like to him.

[otakulk.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to hear that. Tristam has been ill for almost a year now, being held together by bubble gum and duct tape (though recently we got a prescription for those twisty ties you get with trash bags). I've considered replacing him completely, but we've been through so much I think I might just make him into a hackintosh (so I can run the iphone dev kit).

A note on itunes - let me know how that works out. I didn't have to use it for my ipod, but I have to for my iphone, and I've found it to be really obnoxious.