Nov 22 2008
Computer Problems - Dual Boot baby…
The virus that claimed our machine affected the boot sector of the old HD, making recovery of the data on it difficult. After much too-ing and fro-ing I succeeded in extracting approximately 5gig of pictures, tax records, resumes and financial spreadsheets (this thanks to an 8gig usb stick I picked up for $20 for my car stereo yesterday).
The new machine (with a much larger HD - 320Gig compared to the previous 40Gig, and upgraded RAM) has been set up as a dual-boot (WinXP and Ubuntu) with a common partition for moving data between the two. This took some doing (although it’s painfully simply, much easier if you ACTUALLY INSTALL SP2 once you’ve installed XP), but now works ok.
I’ll be mucking around with the two desktops a bit, but the clean install of two operating systems should keep us going for a while.
We’ve got Jillians 4th birthday party shortly, otherwise I’d blather at some length about this. I did want to let ya’ll know I was back online, and things were returning to normal.
Cheers!
Happy Birthday Jilly!!!!! And happy birthday daddy. And happy birthday mommy since she’s been smart enough not to divulge it.
I’ve wanted to setup a dual boot. But the computer is rarely in a state where I can power down due to multiple users, now 3!, always in use.