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Blogs > sincerelover > a little piece of me


sincerelover 66M
28 posts
12/15/2007 10:40 am
computing joys

a couple of weeks ago I turned my laptop on and was met by the advanced boot options screen....and neither any of the safe options, or any other configuration including starting normally worked, the options screen returning.

I even entered the bios and performed a check on the hard drive which passed so I was stumped.....to gain some kind of access to the system I attempted to load XP on to the drive, and after booting it took me through to the options screen where I first chose to repair only to discover that the hard drive was not connected or present....it was, but was the hard drive corrupt, failed? I even attempted to load an OS on my external hard drive but encountered difficulties there.

biting my tongue I searched magazines to find a suitable base for the peripherals that I own (and here is the crazy thing, I have two decent bases that just require graphics cards, one base an athlon 64 bit with large storage but why take the cheaper option eh?) and took delivery of a base yesterday with specs that should future proof me for a while

core duo E6550 2.33GHz (1333FS 4Mb cache

2 gig ddr 667 ram

geforce 8600GT

and running vista premium

the only problem I had was with the graphics card as when I checked the windows experience index I found that the system was rated 1! The graphics card driver was not installed but that has now been rectified.

but getting back to the laptop I decided this morning to have one more go by installing vista as the operating system and imagine my surprise when getting into things I discovered that there was no operating system on my laptop......nothing.....sweet FA.....something somehow has completely wiped my hard drive, a ghostly format.....bugger!

now of course I have vista happily running on my laptop blissfully unaware that within the next 30 days it will have to either acquire a new product key or become a different OS.....

such is life....

sincerelover 66M

12/15/2007 4:10 pm

 thanks gal, yes this is a lot like life and its random changes




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