Monday, December 31, 2007

New year, clean hard drive.

Things of mine to see:

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Well, I was playing, or attempting to play, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and guess what happened.

Blue Screen of Death!

But this time it was the awesomest BSOD I've ever seen, It started blue, then it turned to blue with a white HP logo, black, and then black with light gray text which said something about HAL.DLL being missing or corrupt. Automatically it decided to restart the computer, and it corrupted parts of the filesystem! Yay!

This means that now I have to recover all my data through the linux partition I put on there (Thank you Tux!) and copy it to the hard drive from my new computer. (Only thing large enough for the job.)

So now I can go to bed and call it a night. My data is safe on the backup HDD. All I have to do is wait for my sister to back up her stuff, and get the system restore disks from my dad. That way, I can wipe the drive and start fresh.

How ironic that it happens to occur New Year's Eve, huh?

For those curious, my shipment from NewEgg (Graphics card, PSU) is due in on the third, the day I go back to school. I guess UPS takes New Year's Eve and New Year's off too. *shrug* I guess they do deserve it, huh? At least, as much as anyone else really does.

Well, I got my Half-Life 2: Episode 1 in tonight/this morning. The only place I can play it for now is the laptop. I guess it doesn't have a driver mess from having to different video cards swap in and out and probably doesn't have viruses lurking somewhere in the background. My dad was really good about avoiding viruses/spyware, but not my sister. Makes me glad I've built my own computer.

Anyways, it's a quarter past five in the morning, so I think I'm going to get to bed as soon as possible, even though I would have liked to have written something tonight, or even actually practiced piano. Ugh. I promised my teacher I would practice, so I really have to now. I just need to remember.

Yeah...

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