Very bad day
Korean life, Teaching, Tech December 10th. 2009, 6:54pmMy mood seems to be reflected in the weather today. I had an incident that ruined my day, and it’s been rainy and overcast outside. My day at work was spent mostly looking at grades in the computer and discussing something serious that went down in one of my classes with my director. It was not a good day in the slightest. I hope this moves to a speedy resolution.
Not only that, but my plan to try to fix my computer made two steps forward and yet a step back again. Just when I thought I had solved the problem of updating my BIOS and booting from a USB stick, I find out that while I was indeed successful in booting from my USB, the system itself can’t detect anything because I have an ext4 file system on my computer. At least, that’s the problem I think I have. I could go and reformat and mess around with my partitions since I am planning to start over clean anyway, but there is no way I can test the hypothesis that I diagnosed the problem accurately at the moment.
I have a few weeks to sort out the current computer problems, but I’ve had nothing but mounting frustrations all day.
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December 11th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Nuke it from orbit. Break out your XP disc, reformat (the FULL one), reinstall, and start over again. It’s easier than trying to screw around with everything :)
December 11th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
The EXTERNAL DVD drive the doesn’t let me boot the install disc by itself. It needs drivers run by the operating system itself to function. It’s a Catch-22.