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"hmm something not quite right, you had better restart you computer mate. If it happens again you had better pray you had done a recent back up"
or that’s what it should say.
Restart the bad boy and no OS found. Stunning! So I have many hours of fun ahead of me and that is just downloading the M$ patches!
I have to wait for a systems bloke as it is under warranty, it has been 3 hours already. I have a temporary PC but it is not mine and I dont think the owner would appreciate me installing a whole range of goodies.
Ahhh life is great.
Worth doing if you can - you may still have access to the data on hard disk.
As a quick tip, I have found on several occasions in the past when this has happened to me (yes, I've had it a few times before!), everything is fine if the PC is cool.
In other words, switch it off for a couple of hours to get cold. Then fire it up again. If you get into the OS, backup everything fast.
It's probably hard drive, motherboard or SCSI card (if its a SCSI drive) problem.
Best of luck!
TJ
That will teach your PC a lesson!
grrrrrrrrrrrrr
If you can access a spare machine you could try putting your existing hard drive in that to see if you can pull off your files.
Throwing it out the window would probably be more fun though :)
