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The dreaded blue screen of death!!! Last night was the first time in a long time that I've found myself staring at one of these. I don't know exactly what happened. My laptop has been a pretty reliable machine. My wife had simply launched outlook. Two minutes later she was still waiting for outlook to launch. So I tried to bring up task manager to see what was going on. Two minutes later and I was still waiting for task manager to come up.

Then it came. The blue screen. The screen that makes any computer user cringe. I had no choice but to try to shut down and reboot. Guess what the computer failed to reboot. Could not find OS... So I try a Windows recovery. That fails too. Format? Guess what can't format that too fails. So needless to say here I am talking to Dell tech support and running the hard drive diagnostics. I might be computerless for a couple of weeks. At least it is still under warrenty.

Somedays I just really hate computers...



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  • 09.29.2004 6:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: focused7

Somedays I just really hate computers...



me to

  • 09.29.2004 7:59 AM PDT
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We al......do....

  • 09.29.2004 8:30 AM PDT

bah

Damn. The blue screen of death. Scarey.

  • 09.29.2004 8:45 AM PDT
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well it's official. the hard drive is now junk. dang lost everything.

all my visual basic programs
my webpage i was getting ready to launch next week
all my digital images
emails.....

crap

  • 09.29.2004 8:49 AM PDT

bah

Don't abandon all hope yet.

You may yet be able to slave the harddrive to a master and run recovery programs.

  • 09.29.2004 8:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Rip Saw
Don't abandon all hope yet.

You may yet be able to slave the harddrive to a master and run recovery programs.


no man it is shot. it failed 4 diagnostic test. the old drive has to go back to Dell anyways.

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  • 09.29.2004 8:53 AM PDT
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Macs Rule ...

  • 09.29.2004 9:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Blackmarch
Macs Rule ...


even a mac could suffer from a hard drive failure

  • 09.29.2004 10:05 AM PDT
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dude i'm not gettin a dell (in the voice from the commercial)

  • 09.29.2004 10:06 AM PDT
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You have to love Wikipedia. What doesn't it have? LoL

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  • 09.29.2004 10:22 AM PDT