We all hear about XP sucking and XP instability, but I myself have never seen huge epic failures from XP. Until now. This my friends, is what happened after the restart required for the install of IE7.
http://trevorsarchives.selfip.net/funpics/images/IE7Killer.JPG
That is not gibberish folks, it literally means a FONT (OH DEAR GOD NO) is missing and now the system can’t boot. Safemode, command prompt, nothing, dead in the water.
Anyways I have since replaced the missing font (Hirens rules) but it now just sits endlessly loading at the loading XP screen, does appear to be thrashing away at the hard drive and the network, but doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
So now it just sits around looking like this…. ah the irony.
http://trevorsarchives.selfip.net/funpics/images/ie7killitdrevil.JPG
Ok, so back to hirens, run a chkdsk /R. now I am completely impressed. It finds something like half the fonts files are orphaned. But even better, 8 bad clusters were found. HOW THE HECK IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE, ITS A FAKE HARD DRIVE!!!
Ok, everything is booting fine now. Though now both MSN and Avira seem to think I am running Windows Vista and require updates…… right…..
This is fun!
