muddocktor
01-04-08, 12:38 AM
This afternoon it looks like the hard drive that came with my Dell laptop was trying to give up the ghost and it lost 2 weeks of cached wu's. :( I had been using the lappy and went away for a few minutes to check on something and when I came back I found a black screen facing me saying that a boot drive couldn't be found.:mad: I went and did a hard shutdown then tried bringing it back up and the computer then saw the drive but Vista couldn't boot. I then ran through the Vista repair wizard and it restored to some earlier point (like a few weeks ago it looked like) and finally got to the desktop, but lost my wifi and the cached work units. I then pulled some critical data off the drive, shut down and luckily I had another hard drive I had bought when I got the laptop last March (in case I had compatibility problems with Vista) with XP Pro on it and got my machine back up and running. I then had to download the latest version of BOINC and the latest optimizations and install BOINC on this XP drive. So at least I have my laptop back up and crunching, but it makes me sick that the other hard drive trashed 2 weeks worth of cached work.
All in all though I came out OK on this. It was a good thing I bought the extra hard drive and installed XP on it for this laptop as otherwise I think the original hard drive wouldn't have lasted another 1 1/2 weeks before dying completely.
All in all though I came out OK on this. It was a good thing I bought the extra hard drive and installed XP on it for this laptop as otherwise I think the original hard drive wouldn't have lasted another 1 1/2 weeks before dying completely.