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Arrrrrrrghh!

I anticipate a lot of wasted time tomorrow.

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Trish Says:
June 3rd, 2005 at 1:13 pm
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I’ve always known you’re a geek, but the fact that it even occurs to you to take a picture of your unbootable laptop puts you way, way over the edge. I’m a little frightened.
George Says:
June 3rd, 2005 at 5:32 pm
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Several years ago I was very happy that my Windows 2000 machine hadn’t BSOD’d, given that the previous NT machine would do it about once per week. One day (about 2 hours before a deadline, just prior to a long weekend), my W2K machine BSOD’d, which I thought was pretty bad. My startup screen looked pretty similar, except mine said that it couldn’t find a primary boot disk.

I guess it’s legitimate for W2K to BSOD when trying to read or write the swap file that has gone away.

I had a replacement drive in 10 minutes, but the old drive was toast. The drive restore through the backup software took 4.5 days, and even then some things weren’t quite right.