Oops!

This morning Deb’s computer won’t boot, claiming a file is missing or corrupt.  Funny thing is, I think I saw the same thing recently and it was bogus.  In her case there was nothing for it but to boot from the XP CD and use the recovery option.

So that requires the administrator password.

Of which the first six it might have been are not valid, which puts me at the third reboot because it won’t let you try more than three at a time.

Then that third reboot gives a stop error PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and freezes at that point.  Yay.

So I am hoping I really do have a blank CD around on which to burn the Ultimate Boot CD, which just finished downloading as I typed.  I found it had both the drive utility and memory checker I wanted in one package.

There’s likely nothing on the drive that isn’t expendable, but I’d like not to have to wipe it out.  Or worse, replace it, even if I do have a spare available just now.  If the drive seems to have issues and I don’t even try to wipe and reinstall it, I may be able to access files on it as a slave drive.

I have tons of other stuff to post about, which may have to wait until after this and after going to see Spidey 3 today.  For instance, how I came to spend an entire 56+ hour stretch making the client’s data conversion run and monitoring it periodically (current ETA for being done with part 2 is 8 PM or so today).

Anyway, literally waking up to this computer problem is fitting, since I had a nightmare in which I accidentally wiped an existing drive with all my stuff on it instead of an expendable drive I’d added to a system.

Posted by on 05/13 at 08:25 AM

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