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16 years ago
I saw my first blue screen of death on Windows XP this morning. This cannot be good. Computer was fine when I went to bed last night. Was having "Delayed write errors" when I got up. Will drop it off at the shop tomorrow and hope for the best. In the mean time, I may be slow to respond to email or anything else since all I have is my work laptop and the corporate firewall is, shall we say, suspicious.
Also, if you sent me an email between about 10:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time last night (Tuesday, 14 April) and some time this morning, you might want to resend it since it could be stuck in Outlook Express on my comatose computer.
Also, if you sent me an email between about 10:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time last night (Tuesday, 14 April) and some time this morning, you might want to resend it since it could be stuck in Outlook Express on my comatose computer.
FirestormSix
~firestormsix
in 70 % of those cases where Windows reports Delayed Write Errors means a Hard Drive failing & bad Hard Drive Sectors appearing. ( its getting errors writing & reading from the disk platters inside the HD) best to try to copy all your data asap off it and replace the drive, then re-install your OS.
Tallyhawk
~tallyhawk
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It doesn't sound good. I have it scheduled to go into the shop tomorrow morning. With luck, it is still under warranty. That's the good news. The bad news is I'm WAY behind on my backups. Hopefully, Russ can salvage the important stuff like email.
FirestormSix
~firestormsix
*hugs* i do backups on everything bi-weekly, ( complete drive copies/mirrors on seperate external drives) I have had a drive fail a long time ago and lost a ton of music and videos, i learned from that. That drive 6 years ago. was giving delayed write errors just two days before it did a head crash and all data was lost and unrecoverable. It was a 40 gig Maxtor.
