Just so everyone here knows, even "computer experts" have some nice crashes once in a while. (Notice the quotes).
I have no idea what happened, but yesterday explorer kept crashing. And tonight I turned on my laptop, and got the great blue screen of death right on startup. (Something you hardly see with XP). I rebooted into Linux, and everything checked out, so I knew I didnt have a hardware problem.
So, after trying the 15 or so tricks in the recovery console, and registry backups, and all the other stuff I know to try to put the paddles to XP and revive it, I am letting it die. Luckily I have everything but a few files backed up, and I am in Knoppix right now (something I've recommended before) copying the files over so I can do a reinstall.
But yeah, you guys can all point and laugh at me now. Another plug for Knoppix tho. I put the CD in, booted up, and have access to all my drives and partitions, and it connected right to the internet, I did nothing more than boot up. I can fix what's wrong, or at least retrieve my files before I reinstall.
If you haven't yet, Download Knoppix and burn a CD, and keep it around just in case. Thats what I did, and now I'm really thankful for it. This way you can at least retrieve your stuff before reinstalling everything.
I have no idea what happened, but yesterday explorer kept crashing. And tonight I turned on my laptop, and got the great blue screen of death right on startup. (Something you hardly see with XP). I rebooted into Linux, and everything checked out, so I knew I didnt have a hardware problem.
So, after trying the 15 or so tricks in the recovery console, and registry backups, and all the other stuff I know to try to put the paddles to XP and revive it, I am letting it die. Luckily I have everything but a few files backed up, and I am in Knoppix right now (something I've recommended before) copying the files over so I can do a reinstall.
But yeah, you guys can all point and laugh at me now. Another plug for Knoppix tho. I put the CD in, booted up, and have access to all my drives and partitions, and it connected right to the internet, I did nothing more than boot up. I can fix what's wrong, or at least retrieve my files before I reinstall.
If you haven't yet, Download Knoppix and burn a CD, and keep it around just in case. Thats what I did, and now I'm really thankful for it. This way you can at least retrieve your stuff before reinstalling everything.