Comments on: Arrrrrrrghh! http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2005/06/02/arrrrrrrghh/ As honest as a gambling man can be Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:08:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: George http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2005/06/02/arrrrrrrghh/#comment-441 George Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:32:12 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/archives/2005/06/02/arrrrrrrghh/#comment-441 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. 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.

]]> By: Trish http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2005/06/02/arrrrrrrghh/#comment-440 Trish Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:13:44 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/archives/2005/06/02/arrrrrrrghh/#comment-440 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. 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.

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