Bloody Computers!
Apr. 30th, 2004 03:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostcarparkWas out to two (count 'em) work dos last night. First we were at the 51 Bar on Haddington Road, which was the department our last project was for's night out. We were invited as a thank you for the project, and despite some glitches they seem very happy with it. Free drink and free food (sausages, chicken strips, chips, wedges and spring rolls). Then we went on to the School House pub where someone from our department was having leaving drinks as he's moving to a different part of the bank. More free drink and free food (spicy chicken wings). Managed to time it well to get food in both places. Got into a chat about scuba diving and snowboarding. Had to run for the last train home. Good night out.
Just been having a look at my computer. It's not a happy bunny. Had a worried call from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madangie this afternoon, but I'm fairly sure it's not anything she did. Trying to decide whether to try to coax it back to life or bite the bullet and spend money on new bits (something I'd rather not do until after I've got the car NCT'd[1] next month). At the moment it gets part way through the boot process then reports a critical error on the boot-up device. This implies either a hardware fault or corruption on the drive (looks suspiciously at brother-in-law who's been using computer to download stuff over broadband). Either way it probably will require reformatting, but the latter has the advantage that I'd probably be able to recover the data.
Fortunately I have most of the important files backed up on the laptop (which I'm using to post this). I've been thinking about upgrading for a while, especially since the hard drive is getting rather full. However, I was looking at getting a SerialATA drive, which would necessiatate a new motherboard and make upgrading more or less the whole machine desirable.
I'm not going to attempt to do any more tonight as I don't want to aggrivate the situation.
[1] NCT is the national car test, similar to the MOT in the UK.
Just been having a look at my computer. It's not a happy bunny. Had a worried call from
madangie this afternoon, but I'm fairly sure it's not anything she did. Trying to decide whether to try to coax it back to life or bite the bullet and spend money on new bits (something I'd rather not do until after I've got the car NCT'd[1] next month). At the moment it gets part way through the boot process then reports a critical error on the boot-up device. This implies either a hardware fault or corruption on the drive (looks suspiciously at brother-in-law who's been using computer to download stuff over broadband). Either way it probably will require reformatting, but the latter has the advantage that I'd probably be able to recover the data.Fortunately I have most of the important files backed up on the laptop (which I'm using to post this). I've been thinking about upgrading for a while, especially since the hard drive is getting rather full. However, I was looking at getting a SerialATA drive, which would necessiatate a new motherboard and make upgrading more or less the whole machine desirable.
I'm not going to attempt to do any more tonight as I don't want to aggrivate the situation.
[1] NCT is the national car test, similar to the MOT in the UK.
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Re: Serial ATA - 16 pounds plus VAT
Date: 2004-04-30 05:23 am (UTC)My current thinking is to buy a 120GB IDE drive this afternoon and set that up as the primary drive, then put in my old drive as a slave and hopefully recover the data.