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Nov. 14th, 2006 09:04 amBartPE is a godsend when one of your computers has a hard drive failure. It truly is. Pity I can't get network support to work yet, but it's done a far better job at scandisking that bastard into submission than Windows Recovery Console ever did.
Wonder if I can get it to recognize a USB CD burner. If so, great. If not, I'm calling our consultants and asking for our portable hard drive back so I can schlep the remaining material off this computer and onto a working disk. But BartPE works and is free, and the hard drive wouldn't be any use to me without the work I've been able to do with BartPE, so- am happy.
In other news, they're in the process of decorating the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Am I the only one who finds this wrong? They cut down a tree of immense age every year so it'll temporarily be pretty, then get rid of it somewhere. I'm all for Christmas and Yule symbols, but it seems wrong to hack down a tree that's survived more than any of the guys with chainsaws ever have, just to be pretty for people to gawk at.
Wonder if I can get it to recognize a USB CD burner. If so, great. If not, I'm calling our consultants and asking for our portable hard drive back so I can schlep the remaining material off this computer and onto a working disk. But BartPE works and is free, and the hard drive wouldn't be any use to me without the work I've been able to do with BartPE, so- am happy.
In other news, they're in the process of decorating the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Am I the only one who finds this wrong? They cut down a tree of immense age every year so it'll temporarily be pretty, then get rid of it somewhere. I'm all for Christmas and Yule symbols, but it seems wrong to hack down a tree that's survived more than any of the guys with chainsaws ever have, just to be pretty for people to gawk at.
