Re: Windows 2000 Expert Needed


Chip Borton wrote:

So It kinda stings when you ask for a "real expert"
and when many poeple including myself suggested that you have
corruption and its time to re install, you drag your feet.

You don't understand. I didn't recognize that there was a disk problem
until it was too late to re-install. Your years of experience (if
you're read all of my posts) should have told you that there was not
simply a problem with a missing or corrupt file (the first message I
got on the screen) but that there was a physical problem with the disk
drive. Certainly there is now.

I have a small amount of hope that it's not mechanical, and that it may
be a bad boot sector which is a different sort of repair than what I
would expect Windows to make. When I initially posted, I thought that
perhaps a "re-install" of just the Windows files might help, but I have
since concluded that it would not, at least not until something else is
fixed.

Take it from someone that has installed and repaired countless
machines, Its just a waste of time to troubleshoot everything.
You could have bought a new hard drive the first day and had
windows up and running in a couple hours.

I did. But a computer isn't just "windows" it's all the applications.
Unless I had a clone of the drive, I'd still have to install them, then
configure them, and move backup data. It's a big pain in the patootie.
Now as an IT professional, you probably will never experience that pain
because you probably have daily backups automated and in a couple of
hours you can restore your full system on a new drive. I know that we
all should be like that, but human nature doesn't work that way. So
I'll rebuiild slowly. I'm on that computer now, but there are many
things that I'm sure I'll run into over the next few months that I'll
have to install when I need them. Fortunately I keep CDs of most of the
software that I download, but in reality, it's probably better to
download a fresh copy.

Upgrade your hardware, buy a new copy of XP and re-install,
and get back to helping us with our audio problems :)

Sorry, I haven't figured out how to earn that much by helping people
with their problems, so I'll just funble along. ;)

Please forgive me for my outburst.

OK, if you'll take some time to understand my position. I'm sure I'm
not alone in this. I just have so few computer problems, perhaps
because I don't keep a lot of junk around, check for malware
frequently, and do simple disk maintence like running CHKDSK now and
then (and it never finds any problems). So that once in a blue moon
when something that completely stops me in my tracks happens suddenly,
I'm not really very well equipped to handle it. Kind of like when
someone has had his studio running smoothly for years, then one day
something starts humming and all we can tell him is "you have a ground
loop."

.

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