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Alright, two major updates today.
First, I leave for Texas early tomorrow morning to go visit relatives and
friends. I grew up in Texas, so it'll be nice to go back. But of course what
does this mean for you the reader? It means you will somehow have to find a way
to survive without daily updates from binaryfusion.net. Yes, I know it will be
hard, but never fear, I will be back on June 18th. So until then, you might want
to try going outside and seeing the bright yellow thing in the sky for once. Or
just check out the links page for other
interesting websites. So see ya in about two weeks!
The other major news is that a partition on my hard drive has pretty
much crashed. Last night there was a power surge, which caused the computer to
spontanously reboot while in Windows. When it powered on again, the BIOS said
that my primary slave hard drive no longer existed, and that my CD burner no
longer existed. Yea.... Then when I got to the LILO prompt (where you decide
whether to boot windows or Linux), all i got was a bunch of repeating 0's and
1's. So I used a Windows boot disk to load what was basically a DOS prompt, ran
scan disk, fixed the errors it said, then tried to start Windows but all it gave
me was a blue screen with an error on it. Yikes! So I shut down the computer and
went to bed, becuase I didn't want to mess with it. So then today when I booted
it up, the BIOS magically resaw my hard drive and CD burner, and it loaded up
LILo, and then Windows, just fine. However when I went to go play an mp3,
nothing would play. So investigating further, I found out that some files I had
were only "half" there; like I'd only get half a picture with the rest being
black, or half a text file, with the rest of the text in "mystery-land". Then I
discovered that about 50% of my mp3's are no longer showing up in Windows
Explorer, so I presume that they are lost forever. That's the part that hurts
the most, since a lot of that stuff was fairly rare and hard to get. Of course
not all hope is lost, maybe my dad can salvage some of it while I'm gone, but
it's not looking good for my D: drive in Windows. The other drives seem to be in
good shape, I guess I just had to be unlucky and the partition that I would
least like this to happen to (because it's my storage partition), is the one
that it happens to. But at least Linux is unaffected and the other partitions
are OK. But all those lost mp3's... :(
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