Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Once Again It's Been Ages
since I have been here. Been a while since I have had the mental and physical energy to do so. Right now I have me a hideous problem. I have a winxp installation that has gone- wrong. Yesterday it booted up fine. Today I can't get into the winxp partition when I boot. Goes to the "welcome" screen and stops there. No music saying "hi", no nothing. Just stops. So I've been trying to use the "Recovery Console" to rfix my problems. Ain't THAT a frickin' joke. If you've ever tried out your Recovery Console, it's like using ms-dos 5.0, except without as much usability. And I grew up on ms-dos... I thot upgrading to ms-dos 5 was a good thing! : ) A little time exxageration there, but I hope you understand what I have been trying to say.
So I dunno what to do. If I pull the disk out of the machine to save the files, I can't because it's NTFS and all my other machines (4 of them!) are FAT32, and FAT32 can't read NTFS. And the machine with the hard drive ZAPS the MBR if you take the disk out of the machine. How nice. So you have re-install and lose everything.
But the Recovery Console hasn't helped me. I have used what commands I thot could help me and nertin'. The one command I am thinking of using is possibly as dangerous as taking the drive out of the machine and having the MBR get zapped. The command is "FIXMBR". I tried it to see what it would say and it says I have a non-standard or damaged MBR. And if I use FIXMBR, I could damage the MBR to the point that I wouldn't be able to access any of the partitions. But then, who knows- it might suddenly make everything wonderful again.
Fuck me with a chainsaw.
So I am gonna give it a little time, screw around with it a bit, and if nothing works, the dreaded FIXMBR will be pulled out of the closet... the canvas will be removed, the dust blown off... it will be greased, any needed fluid tanks will be topped off... I'll sharpen the blades with my SPECIAL file and test it on a- special part of my body (oooh- blood!)... and then I'll use it- God help me, I'll use it.
Pray for me.
Anne
Anne2Snakie's Snake Swallowings Site
The Girl Flesh Forum
My Hopefully Spam Proof Email Address:
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So I dunno what to do. If I pull the disk out of the machine to save the files, I can't because it's NTFS and all my other machines (4 of them!) are FAT32, and FAT32 can't read NTFS. And the machine with the hard drive ZAPS the MBR if you take the disk out of the machine. How nice. So you have re-install and lose everything.
But the Recovery Console hasn't helped me. I have used what commands I thot could help me and nertin'. The one command I am thinking of using is possibly as dangerous as taking the drive out of the machine and having the MBR get zapped. The command is "FIXMBR". I tried it to see what it would say and it says I have a non-standard or damaged MBR. And if I use FIXMBR, I could damage the MBR to the point that I wouldn't be able to access any of the partitions. But then, who knows- it might suddenly make everything wonderful again.
Fuck me with a chainsaw.
So I am gonna give it a little time, screw around with it a bit, and if nothing works, the dreaded FIXMBR will be pulled out of the closet... the canvas will be removed, the dust blown off... it will be greased, any needed fluid tanks will be topped off... I'll sharpen the blades with my SPECIAL file and test it on a- special part of my body (oooh- blood!)... and then I'll use it- God help me, I'll use it.
Pray for me.
Anne
Anne2Snakie's Snake Swallowings Site
The Girl Flesh Forum
My Hopefully Spam Proof Email Address:
anne2snakie AT yahoo DOT com
I think you can figure out how to type that into the TO: line : )
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