Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

My computer went out on me

Just barely 2 days ago, I tried to play MapleStory on my PC when the Blue Screen Of Death came out for the umpteenth time. At that point in time, I decided to wipe everything out and re-install everything, if only to clean out all the gunk programs that I accumulated out of the 3 months that I had previously re-installed.

After wiping the hard disk, the installer program on the back-up drive spluttered. It installs halfway till 15%, and then quit. Just imagine an anchor smashing into the sea, such was the magnitude of my shock. (I can’t believe I managed to survive at all.)

I tried to run checkdisk on the program, and while it cleared out many of the errors on the file allocation table, the installer on the back-up drive still quit, this time even sooner than the last time. At this point in time, I was absolutely mortified that I might have to call in HP support for my Presario. That would damage the little geek so much that I might stop sleeping for 3 days in a row, only to go to work like an unmotivated zombie.

Though I did go to work looking like a zombie on Thursday, I was a rather happy zombie, because I managed to get Windows 2000 installed on my HP system! I tinkered with the installer, and managed to get the ancient copy of the venerable ancestor to descent into the computer (and going to bed at a grand hour of 3am; I had to get up at 7am the next day) and keep things up until I can get a recovery CD from HP, which costs $15.

Normally, I would have thought that this is pure daylight robbery, but when in need of a rescue, $15 is probably the least of my worries. Here, take my money! Save my computer!!

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