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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Friendly PC knowledge.
PC's, the non fruit kind, now-a-days usually don't come with a restore disk. The disk that puts your computer back from WTF (worse than failure) to normal as the day you bought it. PC makers get away with doing this by partitioning a part of the hard drive as the area that stores the restore information.
It's great in concept if you lose the restore disk, but it's bad if the hard drive fails and there is no media to restore from. In most cases a restore disk can be ordered from the manufacturer.
The booklet that came with the PC and was quickly discarded probably has some kind of warning that says 'Follow these steps to create your own set of restore disks. It would be bad if you didn't have them..'
Tonight I am burning said disks for my laptop I just got a month ago. It's taken about an hour's worth of time, but it's pretty much preventative maintenance.
And if doesn't work, reboot.
Friendly PC knowledge.
PC's, the non fruit kind, now-a-days usually don't come with a restore disk. The disk that puts your computer back from WTF (worse than failure) to normal as the day you bought it. PC makers get away with doing this by partitioning a part of the hard drive as the area that stores the restore information.
It's great in concept if you lose the restore disk, but it's bad if the hard drive fails and there is no media to restore from. In most cases a restore disk can be ordered from the manufacturer.
The booklet that came with the PC and was quickly discarded probably has some kind of warning that says 'Follow these steps to create your own set of restore disks. It would be bad if you didn't have them..'
Tonight I am burning said disks for my laptop I just got a month ago. It's taken about an hour's worth of time, but it's pretty much preventative maintenance.
And if doesn't work, reboot.
Oh and I like what your "wtf" stands for. Will come in handy someday when using that in conversation (like I so often do) and someone not in-the-know asks what it stands for. I'll say "worse than failure," and spout off a bunch of techno mumbo-jumbo like "has to do with a defrag of the motherboard on the backend cache firmware boot rom." That'll teach 'em.