A brief break from the insanity
Jun. 22nd, 2006 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerEd's PC has been problematic, and has gone through four power supplies. On taking it down to the PC shop this time they diagnosed a motherboard fault and charged him £90 to change it out for a new one.
They then wanted to reinstall Windows and charge him £30 for the pleasure of doing so (and making him a back-up of his files). Except that (a) I didn't see why we couldn't just do a repair of Windows to force it to recognise the new motherboard and (b)they didn't seem to be able to find his files on the drive. So I said I'd do it for him.
Booting from a CD with NTFS4DOS on it has shown me his files are just fine, and that the person who failed to copy them off was just incompetent. So if I can just find my XP install disk this will all be sorted fairly quickly.
Except the bastard's gone missing. Which is especially annoying as I spent 4 hours looking for it the other day when I reinstalled Windows on _my_ machine. And I've found all the other disks I bumped into then, but not this one.
Back into the fray I go...
Edit: Found it 3 minutes later
They then wanted to reinstall Windows and charge him £30 for the pleasure of doing so (and making him a back-up of his files). Except that (a) I didn't see why we couldn't just do a repair of Windows to force it to recognise the new motherboard and (b)they didn't seem to be able to find his files on the drive. So I said I'd do it for him.
Booting from a CD with NTFS4DOS on it has shown me his files are just fine, and that the person who failed to copy them off was just incompetent. So if I can just find my XP install disk this will all be sorted fairly quickly.
Except the bastard's gone missing. Which is especially annoying as I spent 4 hours looking for it the other day when I reinstalled Windows on _my_ machine. And I've found all the other disks I bumped into then, but not this one.
Back into the fray I go...
Edit: Found it 3 minutes later
