...and now for some substance

[kismet09]

I'm counting down the minutes until my friend Rochelle gets here to hang out for the evening. After a stir-crazy weekend when I often couldn't think of anything to do, I'm going to have a very full night tonight, returning an ice cream maker to Bloomingdale's (broke on the first time I tried to use it), dinner at Lebanese Taverna Cafe in Rockville, and then Scrabble in Bethesda, and hopefully ice cream or other desserty goodness.

This weekend, our computer blew up for the first time. I turn it on and it says something like
PXE-10S Media System Failure
Boot System Failure... Boot Halted

I don't remember its exact words, but it was something ominous like that. I then put in the restore disk and tried to start it and it said

"Error 88: specified drive not recognized"

or something like that, and then kicked us into a prompt:

X:\>

I have no idea what an X drive would be, and the only drive I could get it to change to was a, which is probably not good, since I should have a C, D, and E in there somewhere. Any ideas?

It was almost nice to not have email access all day yesterday, but I'm nervous that I've fried my hard drive, which I haven't bothered to back up in the year I've had the computer, 'cause it's a new computer! Who thought it would die in just a year! All those CD playlists and letters and...sigh. But, I will try to remain positive until I know for sure that that's what I did.

if any of you out there have any thoughts, please send em my way.

Outside of that, ate tons of good food (chicken mole enchiladas with chompyheather were awesome, even if the music was a little on the loud side), read half of "Joe College" (really good, realistic-seeming college story, especially when it comes to stories of dining hall workers), did a bit of knitting on a second mitten of a pair, cleaned a lot, got a bunch of mail together (heads up janellie), and did laundry on my newly-reconnected machines.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

X should be the CD-ROM. Most recovery disks use higher letters to avoid conflict with the installed disks. It could just be a loose cable. It sounds like it's not seeing the hard drive.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

good to know -- when i did a 'dir' of said X drive it listed what i think should've been on the cd, so that's a good sign. i opened the thing up, blew all the dust out, rechecked the cables, and it didn't seem to help. nor did pleading with it or shaking it. i'll try to do a more thorough cleaning and checking job when i get home and maybe that'll work...