Dec 27, 2007 03:01
Yeah I do think it has been nearly 23 hours ago that I woke up, what a day, I hope this is not a sign of things to come.
This morning I cranked up my Dell Laptop and it booted partially all the while making a nice loud clicking/grinding noise. The hard drive decided to self-destruct on me. I had left the machine on over night figuring as most times it would just hibernate, nope. I came around my desk this morning to find it displaying that lovely BSOD, ah the asure that all of computer folks cringe at the sight of.
Well that bad thing about this whole mess is that last week that computer got all the work software and encryption done to it, and it took the folks 3 days to get it right. It was being difficult, I guess the warning signs were there but we just didn't see them.
So I had to take the new laptop that I purchased in July, the one with Windows Vista installed, into the office to see if there was a way I could make the financial software load. After spending much of the morning, myself and our development manager were able to finish it. All that was left was to encrypt the hard drive. Depending on the size of the hard drive this could take 3-5 hours, of course this is a new laptop so it has a large drive in it.
Our manager decided to just give me the disk, knowing I am computer savvy enough to load the software and get the drive encrypted on my own, as he has clients to see and some interviews to conduct. So I packed the disk, the laptop and headed out later that afternoon. I figured I'd load the unit and let it do its encryption dance while I was off to bed.
Did I mention it is 3am right now?
Around 10, which is 5 hours ago, I loaded the disk and started the software figuring I'd be in bed in 30 minutes. Not to be, the software re-wrote the boot sector of my hard drive and decided it not only would do anything else, it would kill my ability to load windows. After an hour so repairing and doing other things to get into the machine, I was forced to use the recovery disk. Now my laptop is back to the day I bought it, in July. Before I purchased Norton 360, Microsoft Office 2007, converted personal and work email to Outlook, and loaded all those programs today, or yesterday technically (yeah 3 am)
Hopefully when I leave here and go downstairs, the updates for winows, office and Norton's will be done, I fortunately backed up data yesterday...er 26th was technically day before yesterday. And I did save my installation and product keys for the purchased software.
Now I can go into the office in 5 hours and ask the dev. manager for the disks again....and explain to him the catch-22 we are in with our software not being Vista compliant and new laptops and PCs coming Vista only for the most part.
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