Last week my computer decided to die on me. I’ve been having problems with it for about a month now, and everythings pretty much come to a head this last week. First it decided to take 15 minutes to load up. I formatted the damn thing (luckily due to it’s brainfart last month I’d made copies of my files, just lost a week’s worth of work). Problem persisted.

Took the harddrive into work, got Franchesco to clean it up properly, gave it a FAT32 partitioning (didn’t realise that windows doesn’t allow you to partition the harddrive if it’s more than 32GB, strange but true), so reformatted NTFS this time, works a charm. Great. Load, shut off, load, shut off a couple of times to ensure that all is working ok. Load up a couple of programs (mainly open source stuff, will make a list of essential programs once I’ve got this problem sorted out).

Wake up this morning, won’t boot, gives me the following error message: windows root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe Re-install a copy of the above file.

I mean seriously WTF. I could give a rats ass what’s in my computer. I really could. It’s a tool to do things. I don’t care whether or not it’s the latest this that or the other. All I care about is that it aids me in accomplishing my thoughts properly. I shouldn’t be having to deal with this rubbish right now, and yet I find myself in this particular situation.

It’s not the harddrive. It might be the BIOS, but I have no idea, what the fucking BIOS is, and how to just get them all to be factory settings. Should I just change my harddrive and everything will be ok? See the problem is that I had a buddy bring in a harddrive, unfortunately my drive uses an SATA lead, rather than an ATA lead (I know that after this past week).

Installing the Maxtor software doesn’t seem to recognise the damn drive for repairing it (primary, secondary whatever not found).

See I never EVER want to write a post like that, simply because I don’t care about the inner workings of the computer. Seriously. I did that at University, and hated it. I’m even thinking of switching completely to linux right now, except there are several programs that I really can’t live without.