Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category

Recovering from a Computer Crash

authored on Wednesday, March 21st 2007

My last post says that the moment I switched my hard disk, my whole computer crash.  However the solution to it, wasn’t to reformat my whole entire computer system.

The problem was this, when I took out one of the hard disk to be replaced with the temporary hard disk, the BIOS read my operating system disk and modified to boot sequence to my computer.  I had just to change the order of my hard disk boot sequence and I would have got back to my normal computer.  However this solution was only found out after I have formatted my computer.  What a waste.

It usually takes me a day, to set back up my whole computer system.  In a way it’s good because it helps to remove a lot of old junk from the registry.

The good news is, I had learned a new thing.  If I was to send my computer system to another computer professional, it would have cost me quite a bomb.

As you read this post, this is the first post I can do from my newly formatted computer.

Thank you for your loyal reading,
tomagogame.

Just One Minute and My World Came Crashing Down

authored on Monday, March 19th 2007

Just yesterday I made a decision to reuse some of my old hard disks. Whistling that everything is beautiful in its own way, unplugged my current harddisk which doesn’t contain the Operating System (OS) and in goes the old harddisk.

Just flicked the switch on when SUDDENLY “Insert Boot Disk, Failed to detect Operating System” 8O

One will think ‘reverse what you do lah’! I did and still that fr***king error was still there.

This isn’t the first time and it isn’t everytime I plug an old HDD that will crash my computer. However it has always been my habit to backup before I mess with new hardware.

Backing up is crucial to one’s sanity. A wise man once said ‘you are as good as your last backup’. In other words, when your computer goes down, your life is back to the square of your last backup DVD (or VCD) found underneath your bed.

If you work online often, the internet could be your backup. But the internet do tend to crash too don’t they?