Wednesday, June 02

Geek

Woof Woof!

What's that Lassie?

Bark!

You say that NTFS.SYS has got corrupted on the backup system, while the main system is down due to disk failure, leaving me with 650GB of files that may or may not be any good, and no easy way to tell, and what's more, the Windows XP install disk, the only copy I have with Service Pack 1a built in, and hence the only copy that will boot on this machine, has some sticky gunk on it and can no longer read the NTFS.SYS file when I try to use it in rescue mode?

Woof!

But everything is backed up on DVD-R?

Arf!

On 175 DVD-Rs to be precise? Well, I must admit that's slightly better than no backups at all, but still...

Woof woof bark!

And little Timmy's fallen down the well again? Sucks to be him, doesn't it?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:00 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 That crazy Timmy and his wells...the boy will never learn.

Posted by: Jim at Wednesday, June 02 2004 05:10 AM (saeHM)

2 They were going to upgrade our networks this weekend. I went to our sysadmin this morning for my new password and got the lowdown. "Weekend from hell" is how he put it. Almost nothing got done, and what did happen just managed to screw up other previously working things. I love mainframes. ;)

Posted by: Ted at Wednesday, June 02 2004 07:06 AM (blNMI)

3 Try goo-gone on the sticky gunk...

Posted by: Susie at Wednesday, June 02 2004 11:28 AM (PO+k7)

4 Susie - I didn't have any goo-gone, but a damp tea-towel worked. CDs are surprisingly robust in the face of spots and scratches, but sticky gunk turned out to be a bit too much.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 02 2004 07:42 PM (kOqZ6)

5 See, now that's why I keep the 20lb. sledgehammer beside my main computer and a smaller ball peen beside any that I work with. I never have any problems. Twice that is.

Posted by: tommy at Wednesday, June 02 2004 09:20 PM (90rkR)

6 Try one of the bootable Linux CDs. They can mount NTFS drives and seem to be a lot more forgiving about errors.

Posted by: Scott at Wednesday, June 09 2004 01:30 PM (hMZyv)

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