Actor Bernie Mac arrives for the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, CA, in this January 19th, 2003 file photo. The award winning actor and comedian has died at age 50 from complications of pneumonia, his publicist said Saturday, Aug. 9th, 2008.
I spent most of yesterday working on Ben’s computer. He had told me the day before that it wouldn’t start up and I spent a few hours Saturday diagnosing the problem. I finally discovered that several sectors on his hard drive were corrupted beyond repair. I got him a new hard drive from Staples yesterday and the fun began. I messed up by leaving the old drive in and the new drive got formatted and Windows installed but the partition was named “F:” drive and so I messed around a bit trying to change that before finally starting over. ERrrggghh! Then it took forever to get all the updates loaded to Windows over the Internets. (I will KILL Bill Gates if I ever meet him!) Etc., Etc., Etc. I finally had it ready to turn back over to Ben late last evening and he has to install all his junk again. Fortunately most of his stuff survived the disk failure but not all.
MjL 11 Aug 2008, 7:16 a.m.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m going to have to save everything I can from my computer and move it onto another drive so I can install a “genuine” copy of Windows that Clayton gave me--his school gave him 3 licenses for XP Pro to use however he wishes. Then I will get to move it all back, and hope for the best, or spend all night cussing at it
Noah L 11 Aug 2008, 4:53 p.m.
Noah => I’m just glad I found the original disks for Ben’s computer so I had the Window’s disk, drivers, etc. I hope your migration works out OK for you!
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