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Life Lessons in the Black Box, Episode 1
12 years ago
In episode one, we review what one should absolutely not do under any circumstance to your computer unless you specifically want and have prepared for that effect.
What should you not do? Be me. Or at least be like me.
How not to be like me? Pay attention to where your operating system installed its boot manager, and then not format that partition.
Why? Well, what happens is rather awesome. The computer doesn't know how to boot up into that operating system any more. The file structure is intact as are all the documents and what not, but you can't boot into it.
Now, one would assume you could recreate the boot manager, but its not as easy as it sounds. I spent six hours trying to recover or rebuild it, but to no luck.
So.... I had to obliterate my creations and rebuild, much like God did with the flood. My files were rescued by my 1.5TB (dying) HDD which took about 3 hours or so to backup the data. I then proceeded to format /both/ harddrives and reinstall Windows 7 as well as Ubuntu 12.04.
You would think that that Windows, being on SDD #1 would have it's boot manager as SDD #1, but it didn't, and it was my fault for not catching it and setting it up poorly.
Anyway, I'm still recovering from the total loss of my OS, trying to rebuild where I can without reinstalling (because I'm a developer, and if you've ever had to set up a dev environment with specific libraries and specific versions, you know how big of a pain in the ass it really is).
What should you not do? Be me. Or at least be like me.
How not to be like me? Pay attention to where your operating system installed its boot manager, and then not format that partition.
Why? Well, what happens is rather awesome. The computer doesn't know how to boot up into that operating system any more. The file structure is intact as are all the documents and what not, but you can't boot into it.
Now, one would assume you could recreate the boot manager, but its not as easy as it sounds. I spent six hours trying to recover or rebuild it, but to no luck.
So.... I had to obliterate my creations and rebuild, much like God did with the flood. My files were rescued by my 1.5TB (dying) HDD which took about 3 hours or so to backup the data. I then proceeded to format /both/ harddrives and reinstall Windows 7 as well as Ubuntu 12.04.
You would think that that Windows, being on SDD #1 would have it's boot manager as SDD #1, but it didn't, and it was my fault for not catching it and setting it up poorly.
Anyway, I'm still recovering from the total loss of my OS, trying to rebuild where I can without reinstalling (because I'm a developer, and if you've ever had to set up a dev environment with specific libraries and specific versions, you know how big of a pain in the ass it really is).
